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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slobber Monster" data-source="post: 2652002" data-attributes="member: 27687">I appreciate all the information, very interesting. Don't most of the Arthurian legends depict something closer to 2nd to 6th century Britain though? That's more what I had in mind. I'm curious if that makes much of a difference - I've always had the impression that the world of those legends was much more untamed than mid-medieval Britain. Also, even by then if you look at the world as a whole there were still plenty of scary wild places left in the world known to Europeans, even if England and most of Europe were filled up.I know plenty of people were aware of the effects of civilization on nature, and appreciate that much effort has gone into intelligent land management since the invention of agriculture and husbandry. I just expect that the attitudes have been different until recently. There's an important difference between "let's not cut down all the trees at once or we won't have any timber or deer" and "nature is precious, beautiful and spiritual, we must protect its treasures". The latter ideal has likely only had wide following since about the 18th century and the Romantics. The pragmatic view is much, much older.In the end, it's really a matter of what fits my game world better and not an issue of historical accuracy. In a world where human civilization is perpetually teetering on the edge of destruction, and every now and then a Purple Worm pops out of the ground and eats a whole town, I expect the pragmatic view to be prevalent and the Romantic one an oddity.</blockquote>

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