>>3953437Worse than today (obviously), but not as badly as we imagine. In Western Europe, if you had a male lover, kept it quiet, and did what was expected of you (marry and have children), typically nothing would happen to you. This was especially true for the richer classes, because for them marriage was a matter of money and status rather than love. Homosexuality was technically punishable, but in Bohemia, where the game takes place, punishments were rare and typically the case had to involve some serious additional offence.
When the first game came out, the devs held a presentation explaining how they work with real historians to avoid Hollywood tropes about the medieval life and commonly held misconceptions. Being gay was hard, but it wasn't nonstop misery and suffering.
