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<blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9375554" data-attributes="member: 66357">I don't get the impression magic is less prevalent on Oerth than it is on Toril - I'm far from an expert, but I've always seen them as both pretty high magic settings.I think what that passage is saying is that the magic of Oerth has a very different &quot;feel&quot; to it than that of Toril.As I understand it, Oerth is implied to be much, much older than Toril - it's home to the Fields of Pesh, for one, the site of the legendary battle where the Wind Dukes of Aaqa defeated Miska the Wolf-Spider, an event that ended a giant, multiverse-spanning war between Law and Chaos (which I believe has been largely rolled into the concept of &quot;the Dawn War&quot; since 4e) deep in planar pre-history and shattered the dominion of the obyriths over the Abyss, leading to the dominance of the &quot;tanar'ri&quot; demons we see today.In other words, &quot;Oerth was old when <s>this world</s> Toril was young&quot;, and while it's not quite at the level of Dark Sun, it still leans fairly heavily into the influence of Vance's Dying Earth and the like. It's an ancient world nearing the end of its proverbial lifespan (in cosmic/geologic terms), and everything from its lands to its magic bear the scars of untold eons of wear and tear that a younger world like Toril, for all the cataclysms and upheavals it's endured, simply hasn't had the time to accumulate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veltharis ap Rylix, post: 9375554, member: 66357"] I don't get the impression magic is less prevalent on Oerth than it is on Toril - I'm far from an expert, but I've always seen them as both pretty high magic settings. I think what that passage is saying is that the magic of Oerth has a very different "feel" to it than that of Toril. As I understand it, Oerth is implied to be much, much older than Toril - it's home to the Fields of Pesh, for one, the site of the legendary battle where the Wind Dukes of Aaqa defeated Miska the Wolf-Spider, an event that ended a giant, multiverse-spanning war between Law and Chaos (which I believe has been largely rolled into the concept of "the Dawn War" since 4e) deep in planar pre-history and shattered the dominion of the obyriths over the Abyss, leading to the dominance of the "tanar'ri" demons we see today. In other words, "Oerth was old when [S]this world[/S] Toril was young", and while it's not quite at the level of Dark Sun, it still leans fairly heavily into the influence of Vance's Dying Earth and the like. It's an ancient world nearing the end of its proverbial lifespan (in cosmic/geologic terms), and everything from its lands to its magic bear the scars of untold eons of wear and tear that a younger world like Toril, for all the cataclysms and upheavals it's endured, simply hasn't had the time to accumulate. [/QUOTE]

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