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<blockquote data-quote="Sorinth" data-source="post: 9616008" data-attributes="member: 7050650">Debateable, and wouldn't be at the same level of belief since even rural farmers will have seen actual magic with their own eyes rather then simply believing in stories, or not knowing how something happened and assuming it's magic. On top of which the magic that people believed was stuff like consorting with the devil giving you magic powers but making you evil and not a learn from a book and becoming a super hero.A quick google search suggests something like an 80% literacy rate in the Roman Empire. And given some of the grafiti that's uncovered from the time it definetly supports going beyond elite societal class, there's even a funny Monty Python joke about it in Life of Brian. So I'm not sure where the idea that a fantasy world couldn't/wouldn't support high levels.And I'd also point out that in our world there is an actual god of knowledge granting miracles/magic with a goal of promoting knowledge. That's going to change some very basic premises about how things are going to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sorinth, post: 9616008, member: 7050650"] Debateable, and wouldn't be at the same level of belief since even rural farmers will have seen actual magic with their own eyes rather then simply believing in stories, or not knowing how something happened and assuming it's magic. On top of which the magic that people believed was stuff like consorting with the devil giving you magic powers but making you evil and not a learn from a book and becoming a super hero. A quick google search suggests something like an 80% literacy rate in the Roman Empire. And given some of the grafiti that's uncovered from the time it definetly supports going beyond elite societal class, there's even a funny Monty Python joke about it in Life of Brian. So I'm not sure where the idea that a fantasy world couldn't/wouldn't support high levels. And I'd also point out that in our world there is an actual god of knowledge granting miracles/magic with a goal of promoting knowledge. That's going to change some very basic premises about how things are going to work. [/QUOTE]

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