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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1651763" data-attributes="member: 1328">I doubt I could find in our history something I would deem a comparable era. Sure, in a way, it's after Ceremonial Burying, Alphabet, Bridge Building and before Advanced Flight or Nuclear Power; but it's also after Planar Travel, Arcane Magic and before Grand Unified Magical Theory. Which aren't even in the Real World's Civilopedia.In a way, some do. But the mindset behind their use is not the same as the modern one. No one would makes an industry out of magic, like was the premise for Eberron, because that's just not how people think.I'd be surprised.Political systems? Well, there's kingdoms and empires and oligarchies and democracies (in the ancient meaning of the word, that is to say citizenship is restricted to a few people). But it's similar only on a superficial level. A more indepth look gives something that would only accidentally  resemble Real Earth. Political borders? Hell no. Not at all.Totally, completely not. Also, on the same vein, RW climatology is pointless in my homebrew. Weather depends more on the doings of druid cabals and the local spirit's mood than on depressions and anticyclones.No, never.Otherwise, it would start with the first flying dragon. Aerodynamism, square/cube laws, no hexapodal vertebrates, etc.It depends on what your definition of ridiculous is, but I gleefully do. The world was created by gods, powers, and spirits. It was shattered by cosmic cataclysms. It is defined by magic and symbolism. Screw plate tectonics, there's no molten core of magma with a hard kernel of compressed metal or funky things like that. There's dimensional foldings and raw emptyness from when the heart of the world was torn out by the gods to create the moon... And now there's fiends building their own planes in that void. And there's teh risk of it crumbling on itself and dissolving realty in the process. So don't make me laugh with ridiculous things like "mountains exist because of subduction plates" or whatever. Mountains exiss because they exist.</blockquote>

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