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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 6253865" data-attributes="member: 54364">Ancient Rome was pretty cosmopolitan. As were the trading cities of the Hadramawt (sp?), the empires along the Silk Road, Alexander intended for his empire to be and certainly there was a great deal of interaction between the successor kingdoms. And many, many more examples through history. Really it was only quiet little back waters, far off from anywhere that would have been out of the loop. Places like North Western Europe for instance.As Saskganesh pointed out there were people who traveled a LOT as part of their lifestyle. Those who didn't need to travel for their lifestyle didn't travel at all. But that's not to say they would never meet travelers. A local market could be very cosmopolitan with merchants from near and far come to buy and sell. Here the local peasants would be able to meet and mingle and get the news from distant lands and meet foreigners and hear about new and exciting concepts. Etc. Strikes me as fairly cosmopolitan. Yes, there would be places far off the main trade routes that would get their foreign news and trendy new gadgets much more slowly and at 5th and 6th hand. They would be the definition of not cosmopolitan. As indeed they still are today. But there would always have been centres of cosmopolitan, er, activity. (activity is not the word, but you get it.)So I don't have a problem with a fantasy world having globe trotting travelers. All for it in fact.</blockquote>

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