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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 8553794" data-attributes="member: 67">I think such a setting would look a lot like our real, techno-mancy-based world.Almost every single one of us carries around and uses a smartphone with no real understanding of how it functions or what human and environmental resources were exploited in its construction.We have means of flying from anywhere in the world to anywhere else, with most of us, again, only vaguely aware of how it works, or what resources it demands.We can communicate with absolute strangers individually, in mass, in real-time, or asynchronously. And again, we don’t need to know how it works, or what resources need to be exploited to make it work.Those are just three examples. They all suggest one thing: The vast majority of such a setting’s inhabitants would neither need to, nor care to know exactly how their everyday magics work.The people who do know therefore have the power to extract whatever price they wish in providing them. Likely money, but probably also scrying, the results of which can be far more valuable.In such a setting, the trappings of a pseudo medieval/renaissance society would mostly be a cultural (or counter-cultural) fashion. But, like all fashion, it would evolve constantly and quickly, especially in a world that is as connected as such a setting would be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rune, post: 8553794, member: 67"] I think such a setting would look a lot like our real, techno-mancy-based world. Almost every single one of us carries around and uses a smartphone with no real understanding of how it functions or what human and environmental resources were exploited in its construction. We have means of flying from anywhere in the world to anywhere else, with most of us, again, only vaguely aware of how it works, or what resources it demands. We can communicate with absolute strangers individually, in mass, in real-time, or asynchronously. And again, we don’t need to know how it works, or what resources need to be exploited to make it work. Those are just three examples. They all suggest one thing: The vast majority of such a setting’s inhabitants would neither need to, nor care to know exactly [I]how[/I] their everyday magics work. The people who [I]do[/I] know therefore have the power to extract whatever price they wish in providing them. Likely money, but probably also scrying, the results of which can be far more valuable. In such a setting, the trappings of a pseudo medieval/renaissance society would mostly be a cultural (or counter-cultural) fashion. But, like all fashion, it would evolve constantly and quickly, especially in a world that is as connected as such a setting would be. [/QUOTE]

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