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<blockquote data-quote="PrecociousApprentice" data-source="post: 4739562" data-attributes="member: 61449">Not only does the level of verisimilitude necessary differ between people in an audience, but it differs for each element of the fantasy world for each person. Some might be fine with the non-deadly lava and have serious problems with recovering wounds in one night but not have problems with three nights, etc... Verisimilitude is relative to genre, world, world element, audience, and likely more. It is almost silly to say that any level of verisimilitude is necessary. When we insist this, it implies that verisimilitude is on a single axis, and you can travel down this single axis in either direction, more or less believable, and that this axis is objective. The reality is that there are infinite verisimilitude axes, and no axis can be difined as objective.As an addition, I think that Rechan's post about the definition of fantasy is highly congruent with the definition cited. &nbsp;The idea that fantasy is imagination (really just a mental image of something not real) that is extravagent and unrestrained kind of makes the need for &quot;reality&quot; in fantasy a rediculous impossibility.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PrecociousApprentice, post: 4739562, member: 61449"] Not only does the level of verisimilitude necessary differ between people in an audience, but it differs for each element of the fantasy world for each person. Some might be fine with the non-deadly lava and have serious problems with recovering wounds in one night but not have problems with three nights, etc... Verisimilitude is relative to genre, world, world element, audience, and likely more. It is almost silly to say that any level of verisimilitude is necessary. When we insist this, it implies that verisimilitude is on a single axis, and you can travel down this single axis in either direction, more or less believable, and that this axis is objective. The reality is that there are infinite verisimilitude axes, and no axis can be difined as objective. As an addition, I think that Rechan's post about the definition of fantasy is highly congruent with the definition cited. The idea that fantasy is imagination (really just a mental image of something not real) that is extravagent and unrestrained kind of makes the need for "reality" in fantasy a rediculous impossibility. [/QUOTE]

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