I would love you even in your century of humiliation (hypothetically)

I have an English degree but not in a useful way. I just have opinions on literature

They might be worth a look if you're reading up in the area. I will warn you though that I'm pretty sure the books were put together by a 60 something in Microsoft Word so art objects they are not.

Not exactly a mainstream example, but the "Twilight of" series of games (Twilight of the Sun King ect) do something similar to this at a similar scale for large scale 17th/18th century battles.

Three days of writing 500 worlds and voila! Like magic I now have 1500 words

When I started everything was reasonable straight forward so you were expected to pick stuff up with a little game knowledge and some trial and error. Given that, I was genuinely surprised to see a new quest ask me to speak to a merchant and repair my equipment