Just something I was musing earlier today.
How do we get the real world to bare the closest possible resemblance to a (hard) fantasy setting without resorting to ASB interferance.
Take this how you will but to my mind things required would be:
*Fully functioning nations in regular contact with each other but with drastically different technology levels (i.e. Steam punk nation is just next door to medieval nation)
*Lots of true adventurers who aren't all just mercenaries.
*Relative ease of travel for the above (paradoxical lack of centralization)
*Most kings are somehow just background characters in main events
Feel free to pick and choose and add your own definitions though, my mind has wondered and I've lost a lot of my train of thought.
I think the jist of a fantasy world here is lots of variety.
Of course fantasy is fantasy because its just that but is there anyway reality could be shoved in that impossible direction?
How do we get the real world to bare the closest possible resemblance to a (hard) fantasy setting without resorting to ASB interferance.
Take this how you will but to my mind things required would be:
*Fully functioning nations in regular contact with each other but with drastically different technology levels (i.e. Steam punk nation is just next door to medieval nation)
*Lots of true adventurers who aren't all just mercenaries.
*Relative ease of travel for the above (paradoxical lack of centralization)
*Most kings are somehow just background characters in main events
Feel free to pick and choose and add your own definitions though, my mind has wondered and I've lost a lot of my train of thought.
I think the jist of a fantasy world here is lots of variety.
Of course fantasy is fantasy because its just that but is there anyway reality could be shoved in that impossible direction?