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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 9807069" data-attributes="member: 6092">I like AI.  I do pay for it and asked it to do a deep dive.  It thought for nearly four minutes.  Its conclusion?  Common folk only know local history.  (FR Grey box, 3E FRCS) Literacy in FR is lower than real world.  (especially as we learn literacy wasn't as low as we think every year in our world)History is fragmented due to wars or direct purging of archives.  A few historical orders exist, Candlekeep, and the like might know more.  The average person thinks of it as a legendary and mythic realm of flying cities with arrogant mages.  Nobles might add "that fell."  More than willing to share its results if anyone is interested.  As another fun side note, 1E DND allowed for elves to live 2000 years but this search put the FR elf max age as 1000  with a few 1200 exceptions for natural age.  All of that to say that Netheril, having fallen in -339 DR, is myth and legend to most commoners, whether you use the year in the grey boxed set or current year.  Now I'm off to ask how to make Netheril different from current times in case I do have time travel.  Thanks for the discussion!</blockquote>