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There's a percentage of the population that are thrill seekers. They do dangerous things just to feel the rush. I can easily see adventurers being mostly from that segment of the population, with the rest being those with some great motivation.

I was in high school for the Challenger and in science class. The teacher wheeled in a TV so the class could watch the launch live. As you would expect from a high school class, there was lots of talking and laughing. When the Challenger exploded, you could have heard a pin drop for about 30...

I think it was a song sung by... ...I might be wrong, though. :p

And even worse at geography.

That means that either they are old enough to remember, or were young enough that they've been through history classes. ;)

Yeah. If they aren't going to be tall, make them like 6 inches to 1 foot, with a penchant for cleaning and cobbling shoes. I watch the Daily Show and other comedy "news" shows, and they periodically go out and ask people questions about current events. The level of ignorance and/or just plain...

No no no. That one is Slyminster. Sliminster is the dietician.

Elves are explicitly a race that remembers things, though. They go through old memories when they engage in reverie(the elven meditation at night). Knowledge and remembering are one of their main things! :)

Candle Keep and other major libraries would have that information. You could go to a Temple of Oghma. Heck, Contact Other Plane and Commune, or even Legend Lore would yield information. The loss of information after a few hundred years makes much more sense here in the real world where we...

About the only way I could think to do it would be to show 9th, 10th, and 11th level spells being casually thrown about by powerful Arcanists.

Hell, if a study came out showing that 20% of Americans STILL don't know that the Berlin Wall was taken down, I wouldn't be surprised.

Yeah. Halaster was(Is in my game, because I like him too much) Imaskari.

Or else received very unreliable information on that highly available internet. :P