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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightbreeze" data-source="post: 4498065" data-attributes="member: 46755">If I were to give my two cents, I would vote for the real world, or for 1970, with a particular characteristic: there is no fantasy and no sci-fi genre (yes, no tolkien, asimov, arthur clark, and obviously no zelazny). This way, the characters are unaccustomed to such things as parallel worlds and magic and so on, if not at a basic level described by the fairy tales and arthurian tradition. Because we have to admit that if one of us in real life were to be transported in a fantasy world, after the moment of initial shock, he would start analyzing the setting (high/dark fantasy), the magic system and so on...if he had read enough books, he would be hardly surpised by anything. This requirement also makes the world more dull, because there is no escape in fantasy.So, modern world, with no fantasy/sci-fi for me. Probably a wealthy/aristocratic family which raises the children home, because they feel that the grade school / high school is lacking. I would see the oldest children (those around 17) preparing to take the high school equivalence test, and applying for the elite universities.Also, perhaps the family instructors are extremely good, but they are very pragmatical: they teach, but they don't inspire. The world, according to them, is rational, and has to be studied like a scientific subject. No inspiration, no great joy, no nothing. Pretty dull childhood.These are, of course, just ideas. I will adapt to any other suggestion.</blockquote>

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