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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1702995" data-attributes="member: 571">Your New Life in FaerunLet's assume you get a good start in your new life. You have a home and a family, you're making new friends, and getting to know the place.The bad news? It stinks. Even with the best sanitation department in the world any settlement at a late medieval level of technology is going to smell.The good news? It's not as bad as a medieval European city at the same stage of technological and sociological development. This due to the fact that the historical forces that led to the dolorous state of late medieval European sanitary affairs didn't occur here. And to the fact the local deities are a bunch of do-gooding busybodies (for the most part). To put this as simply as I can, a healthy body of worshippers can do more for a god or goddess than an unhealthy body. Overall everybody benefits.So what's your life like?Remember what your life was like as a 15 year old back on Earth? That's right, your life as a newly re-minted 15 year old in Faerun is a lot like that. Though you probably have even more responsibilities now than you did then. You have chores to do. You may be called upon to care for the younger children if your new family has such. In addition there are matters educational and vocational to consider. In addition to which is your status as a 'visitor from another planet'. Until the local sages, scholars, and nosy parkers get their nigh boundless curiousity satisfied you're gonna be busy answering questions. Even after they're satisfied there will still be travellers dropping by to hear your tales, myths, and legends."You mean you actually institutionalized coup d'etats and hold them on a quadrennial schedule?"All in all the materials you brought with you for your benefit will most likely have a greater impact on the world than you do. While not all the information contained in those books etc may be useful, they may give people ideas at the very least. The scientific method, as worked out by philosophers and scientists on Earth since ancient times, may revolutionize mundane and magical research, even if it's not strictly applicable as formulated on Toril. Works on materials science on modern military and civil engineering could do the same in the field of construction and public works.On the other hand, any texts you bring along regarding matters of morality and ethics are more likely to be dismissed as dangerously wrong at worst, and laughably wrong at best.Which leads us to the topic of the next (substantial) posting in this thread, Good, Evil, And Why Killing Orc Babies is a Good Thing.</blockquote>

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