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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5238376" data-attributes="member: 1225">They'd be commonly known because, despite the relative rarity of higher level spellcasters, there are spellcasters around. Some of them will cast spells to summon avatars, commune with their gods, travel the planes, return the long-dead to life (with tales of the afterlife), and so forth, and the stories of those events will spread. If you hear tells of men walking the paths of the gods' homes, and then a student of that guy shows up and works miracles (i.e., casts cure spells), why wouldn't you believe the larger story, when it fits the rest of the world you have seen?If you're asking "how does the 'common' (aka Joe Peasant) person know -- as in have evidence of the truth of -- that these things are true" -- well, they don't. Joe Peasant doesn't know all sorts of things. He doesn't know that dragons are really real, he doesn't know that jumping from a mountain ledge will probably prove fatal, he doesn't even know that a composite longbow in the hands of a skilled archer will kill him dead before he can run ten feet. Joe doesn't have personal experience of any of that, after all. He's lived in one tiny area his whole life and not been too far from it, ever.And if Joe doesn't believe anything he hasn't personally experienced, he's pretty much guaranteed to a yokel, no? "Oh, I'm sure they got walls tall as four men around a city of twenty thousand people -- that's just crazy talk!" "Men flying -- why, they ain't got wings!"</blockquote>

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