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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 820452" data-attributes="member: 3271">After the comet passes between the earth and the moonI can certainly see a massive devastation of Ausel, with minimal survivors, but I find it hard to believe the destruction of civilization worldwide is the result of even the most vicious of wars at this point.Economically, if I understand things correctly, our societies have just barely begun to specialize.  Just about everybody still has a kitchen garden, hunts, or does animal husbandry to provide some basic food and clothing.Even if the capital cities were utterly destroyed, there's still probably a network of villiages that are pretty much unaffected and can maintain the same standard of living they had before.The Stempans may be in trouble because of their concentrated urban populations, but the nomadic Ta'jinn simply move someplace a little less charred and smouldering and the Cresians simply let nature grow back...to druids, this is just one of the less pleasant parts of the circle of life/wheel of time, but nature will grow back, just like it always does.  So will the Cresians.The Ausel, of course, are in trouble.  We are likely to see their monsters get loose and make all kinds of trouble, but unless they can fly or swim, they won't get far.  Auselen is an island: by definition it's got significant water barriers around it.Any Ausel can can leave are likely to do so immediately, before the owlbears and wolf-headed hydra come by to discuss their displeasure at their new lifestyle.These individuals might become blue-water boat people, but are more likely to try and manage landfall and try to blend into the local populace.  The only ones with any hope of making it are going to be the ones who get to Stempa.Auselen becomes known as an even more cursed and unpleasant place than it was, unless the Formians can settle it, which would be difficult: if they do, it's likely they will have a fulltime job just controlling the escaped Auselen monsters, never mind expanding law and order.</blockquote>

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