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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7499344" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>Well there is no Christianity or Islam, so that gives you a fairly good idea, about the time Jesus Christ would have died but didn't seems like a good split off point, somewhere around 30 AD I'd hazard to guess. The Roman Gods also make their presence known, and I suppose if there are Roman gods, there should be other pantheons as well, the Norse Gods also inhabit northern Europe, Britannia is a contested area between the Roman gods and the Norse and Celtic gods, the Middle East is an contested area between the Roman/Greek Gods and the Egyptian, and Babylonian gods, some Roman gods are also gods of different mythos wearing different clothes - that way they gain extra worshippers without then necessarily knowing it.</p><p>In this universe it is around the time of Christopher Columbus, the technology is about as advanced as in Columbus' time, ships are starting to sail across the Atlantic and discover new continents, and Native American gods are discovered there as well. Gunpowder weapons are still very crude and not all that effective, so the tech is approximately the same as the current era in the Forgotten Realms. Latin is an extinct language, various temples to the Roman Gods still use it in their services, just like the Catholic Church did in our history, but people speak their national languages, The Britons speak Britannic, the Gauls speak Gaullic and so forth. Time has moved on, and the Roman Empire is no more. A pagan Greek speaking Byzantine Empire exists that still calls itself the Roman Empire, but in western Europe, the Roman Empire is no more. There is a German Empire in central Europe, it is a loose federation of vassal states. Germania is split between the worship of Roman deities and of Norse Deities, and some Norse Deities are actually Roman deities in disguise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7499344, member: 6925649"] Well there is no Christianity or Islam, so that gives you a fairly good idea, about the time Jesus Christ would have died but didn't seems like a good split off point, somewhere around 30 AD I'd hazard to guess. The Roman Gods also make their presence known, and I suppose if there are Roman gods, there should be other pantheons as well, the Norse Gods also inhabit northern Europe, Britannia is a contested area between the Roman gods and the Norse and Celtic gods, the Middle East is an contested area between the Roman/Greek Gods and the Egyptian, and Babylonian gods, some Roman gods are also gods of different mythos wearing different clothes - that way they gain extra worshippers without then necessarily knowing it. In this universe it is around the time of Christopher Columbus, the technology is about as advanced as in Columbus' time, ships are starting to sail across the Atlantic and discover new continents, and Native American gods are discovered there as well. Gunpowder weapons are still very crude and not all that effective, so the tech is approximately the same as the current era in the Forgotten Realms. Latin is an extinct language, various temples to the Roman Gods still use it in their services, just like the Catholic Church did in our history, but people speak their national languages, The Britons speak Britannic, the Gauls speak Gaullic and so forth. Time has moved on, and the Roman Empire is no more. A pagan Greek speaking Byzantine Empire exists that still calls itself the Roman Empire, but in western Europe, the Roman Empire is no more. There is a German Empire in central Europe, it is a loose federation of vassal states. Germania is split between the worship of Roman deities and of Norse Deities, and some Norse Deities are actually Roman deities in disguise. [/QUOTE]
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