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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jago" data-source="post: 6919704" data-attributes="member: 6855130">To be fair, we have a terrible conception of what has happened during the turn of the 20th Century, and that's only about 100 years ago for us, at a time when we had a large population of literate people, major news media, first-hand accounts, and so on. It only takes a handful of generations for humans to completely forget or misremember things, and we're in an age of basically immediate-information if we choose to seek it. Now compound that with a Medieval-style setting where the lay person is not literate, knowledge and books are really only in the hands of the elite, access to news is mostly covered by messengers, bards, and heralds who are primarily concerned with local events as opposed to greater things like "How Magic Works", and then throw in a world-shattering event where again, the majority of people will be far more concerned with just surviving. My inspiration here is The Black Death that swept through Europe, killed millions in less than 10 years, and completely shattered Europe ... yet about 150 years later, we have the Renaissance. Civilization is on the rise, new knowledge is coming through, and while people remember that the Plague is a thing and was horrible, they were not all that concerned with the event itself. This was several generations later, and yet those later generations probably didn't even know anyone actually directly affected by The Plague. It's kind of amazing throughout our own history, but even 20 years is enough for people to forget things or just file them under "not important" and then not think of them. Even for our Longer Lived races, again, many of them were not master level wizards who were directly involved in The Harrowing: most probably just know that magic went wrong ... somehow ... and it stopped working properly for quite some time. To put our own history into effect again, it was just about 150 years after what we call the Renaissance that the American and French Revolutions took place. Those people probably had no clue of most of what happened during those eras, save for mostly 2nd hand accounts. 150 years after that and we're on the cusp of World War I, and I doubt the average person during the early 1900s was all that concerned or knowledgeable about what happened during the middle of the 1700s because it's as alien to them as the 1900s are to us now.</blockquote>

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