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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9799538" data-attributes="member: 42856">Such a survey might be representative of your regular Sword Coast denizen of the Netheril empire. If you ask around a Waterdeep market, you'll probably get nothing more than "a very old empire", "dunno", "a wizard-run country with flying cities", "it's the land of Ssaz Tam, isn't it?" or "they secretly run the government, and most of the Masked Lords are in fact netherese in disguise".Information being lost to the masses doesn't mean that information is lost. I don't know who was Hammurabi's great-great-grandfather, but I am pretty sure I can google that easily (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumu-la-El" target="_blank">Sumu-la-El</a>).I think there may be several level of familiarity with the Netherese empire:1. direct knowledge and recollection, among long-lived elven wizards, or surviving arcanists;2. a feeling of inheritence and great familiarity, in Halruaa for example, where they were long run by a high arcanist;3. a feeling of continuation (like Byzantium) in the remaining survivor states that didn't cut their tie (ie, not Uthgard tribes);4. very detailed accounts on minute details like we do about the Roman Empire, in Candlekeep;5. a vague recollection of the name among the general population.Edit: I'd also say that the Netherese empire was a magocracy. And wizards are supposed to be bookish. They'd certainly produce more written accounts than your average Vth century B.C. Republican consuls.</blockquote>

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