Does anyone know of any battlemaster-esque republics and democracies that actually existed sometime in the medieval period? The only one I could think of was Ancient Rome, but that is hardly medieval.
For democracy, I believe the model is Great Britain, post Magna Carta. Republics? Not sure, maybe the Byzantine Empire? Can't say. Allows us to RP realms like what might have existed had fragments of the roman empire continued to continue operating as they did but on a smaller scale somewhere, I guess.
