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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?