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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3442843" data-attributes="member: 7177">Can't speak for Greyhawk, but the post-WWI parallels are stretched very thin for the Forgotten Realms. I've studied this era in detail (especially the Weimar Republic), and the parallels in Eberron are quite obvious. The Times of Troubles, on the other hand, weren't really a Realms-wide war as much as a Realms-wide natural disaster. The last true conflict to span even large parts of the continent was the Horde invasion, and even that did only affect a small part of the continent. In Faerun, the various nations and regions are just too isolated from each other to make such a vast war possible.Eberron, on the other hand, has both long-distance communication and long-distance transport which are both reasonably common and affordable for the reasonably affluent. This makes the Five Nations grow closer together while highlighting the tensions between them - just like in the Interwar period of Earth.</blockquote>