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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChaosShard" data-source="post: 3744712" data-attributes="member: 55074">I see what you're saying, but the SpellPlague may be a more insidious, long term problem than a nuke. What if the plague persists for 80 or 90 years, wiping out powerful casters over time, to the point where the magical infrastructure (I'm looking at you Halruaa!) can no longer be maintained and areas reliant on it slip into a dark age, almost akin to western Europe around 500 CE? Certainly, if places like Candlekeep survived you wouldn't have lost all of that knowledge (wow... Lorehunters working for Candlekeep in this setting? Sounds like a nice campaign <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), but many regions would be hard-hit, and people would hesitate to take up the Art for fear of the plague (commoners and other superstitious folk may blame "mundane" plagues on the Spellplague, perhaps even hunting Arcanists, and blaming them for the infections), even if it hadn't been seen in 10 or 20 years. That would explain a 100 year jump and the ceding of ground to monsters, etc.Or, of course, we may see a Realmslore article a month from now talking about how the Spellplague came and went in 5 years and it's now 1385 (remember, they never said that the campaign didn't go forward 10 years, only that they didn't confirm that point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).</blockquote>

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