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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 480267" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>My current game has the PCs leading the resettlement of a new island after their own home island has sunk beneath the waves (something that has been happening gradually for sometime (ie former plantations being flooded by seawater, villages finding themselves closer to the high tide mark each year)- hence they were sent out to discover the island in the first place<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p></p><p>as to the disasters you cite</p><p></p><p>I'd suspect that the flooding of the Bosphorus would not occur 9as some one would have built a damn using magic or otherwise)</p><p></p><p>However Beringia probably would have occures as usual (it was not a major 'disaster' but a gradual rise in sea levels over years/centuries)</p><p></p><p>The various volcanic eruptions and Earthquakes would have occured (being sudden disasters without warning) but may have had less loss of life as magic was used to evacuate civilians or rescue survivors</p><p></p><p>The Tunguska Meteor is such a spectaculr event that I suspect it would have been given supernatural explanations in any fanstasy society (it was in our own<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) - and would become something of a shrine to watever god/demon/dragon it was attributed too. (Actually iirc it was used on a GhostBusters cartoon episode as the site of the detonation of a powerful 'ghost')</p><p></p><p>ps the largest Volcanic eruption in recorded history was the 186AD Taupo Eruption the effects of which were recorded in Rome and China at the time</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 480267, member: 1125"] My current game has the PCs leading the resettlement of a new island after their own home island has sunk beneath the waves (something that has been happening gradually for sometime (ie former plantations being flooded by seawater, villages finding themselves closer to the high tide mark each year)- hence they were sent out to discover the island in the first place:)) as to the disasters you cite I'd suspect that the flooding of the Bosphorus would not occur 9as some one would have built a damn using magic or otherwise) However Beringia probably would have occures as usual (it was not a major 'disaster' but a gradual rise in sea levels over years/centuries) The various volcanic eruptions and Earthquakes would have occured (being sudden disasters without warning) but may have had less loss of life as magic was used to evacuate civilians or rescue survivors The Tunguska Meteor is such a spectaculr event that I suspect it would have been given supernatural explanations in any fanstasy society (it was in our own:)) - and would become something of a shrine to watever god/demon/dragon it was attributed too. (Actually iirc it was used on a GhostBusters cartoon episode as the site of the detonation of a powerful 'ghost') ps the largest Volcanic eruption in recorded history was the 186AD Taupo Eruption the effects of which were recorded in Rome and China at the time [/QUOTE]
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