It's part of a historical intertwining of race thought in the 18th century and the rising of medieval studies that drew from that racial framework and white washed historical studies, for instance the idea that the Roman military was a european/white force in the British isles, when their own barracks show caverly barracks set up in circular layouts as in North africa/"Nubian" units as opposed to the "italic" grids for the "Italian" heavy infantry.
Helen Young writes of this Nazifying of history and fantasy works quite extensively.
Helen Young says that the links between racism and the study of the Middle Ages date at least back to the 18th century. In that period, modern concepts of race began to have widespread currency, just as the notion of "medieval culture" as a field of study took hold. Medieval studies has not yet recovered from this unfortunate intertwining.
Her Book Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness
I think it's about $50 USD on kindle.
I think her work is more appropriate as Mordaou is a fantasy game not a historical text/work, it's what a bunch of racist want European history to be not what it actually was.
