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<blockquote data-quote="Fallen Seraph" data-source="post: 4623662" data-attributes="member: 57894"><p>Oh damn... I am all over the place with this one.</p><p></p><p>I'll just go through a couple settings of mine and list off where I think they would be:<strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>-Necromancy meets Technology Setting: </strong>This I would set in a "past", but a recent past 1914-1918 specifically. Every piece of technology from that time-period exists but it is thanks to Necromancy; phones are ears and vocal chords tied too lines of nerve-ends, tanks are walking armoured behemoths who march along on the twisted masses of hundreds of legs sewn together, etc.</p><p></p><p><strong>-Fantastical Louisiana Setting:</strong> This would be the "past", specifically 18th century Louisiana (not actually Louisiana but based off it). It has all the technology, fashion, etc. of that time-period with some of its own twists, etc. but with fantasy mixed into it as well.</p><p></p><p><strong>-Spirit-Punk Setting:</strong> I don't know... I guess sorta, post-present... But, I dunno. I am reluctant to call it. Since this setting combines lots of Cyberpunk traits; internet, hacking people (well their spirits), cyborgs (spirits who control a mechanical body), etc. But... This isn't because of normal advancement of technology.</p><p></p><p>This is because the Spirit World who thanks to all the spirits who have passed onto there has been able to advance at a much faster rate (think about it all the great minds of past generations working together). But then the Spirit World and our World mixed so a big technological boom. But so rapid things like horses, knights, etc. still coexist beside this stuff.</p><p></p><p>It is also even more messed up in that this explosion of technology is cyclical, it has been happening again and again. Where the Spirit World and our World mix and then separate. This separation stalls our technological process but we kept much of the technology, then we have another explosion but because of the stall not much advances... Yeah, I guess "post-present" be closest, but I dunno...</p><p></p><p><strong>-Artificial World Setting:</strong> Another, I dunno setting. The world has advanced pretty far, too essentially a Magipunk world, but with some more advanced stuff, ie; mecha and such powered by connecting to ley-lines. </p><p></p><p>However, this is because reality was warped and is being controlled by a collective of Aberrations, so... Things could change on the fly. To top it off too the world isn't real it is a big artificial world that was originally a "flash-image" of a previous world created by the Gods through technology and is controlled by a God-Machine well was... before it began to malfunction. I guess... post-present since whatever the old world was I guess be considered the "present" of this universe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fallen Seraph, post: 4623662, member: 57894"] Oh damn... I am all over the place with this one. I'll just go through a couple settings of mine and list off where I think they would be:[B] -Necromancy meets Technology Setting: [/B]This I would set in a "past", but a recent past 1914-1918 specifically. Every piece of technology from that time-period exists but it is thanks to Necromancy; phones are ears and vocal chords tied too lines of nerve-ends, tanks are walking armoured behemoths who march along on the twisted masses of hundreds of legs sewn together, etc. [B]-Fantastical Louisiana Setting:[/B] This would be the "past", specifically 18th century Louisiana (not actually Louisiana but based off it). It has all the technology, fashion, etc. of that time-period with some of its own twists, etc. but with fantasy mixed into it as well. [B]-Spirit-Punk Setting:[/B] I don't know... I guess sorta, post-present... But, I dunno. I am reluctant to call it. Since this setting combines lots of Cyberpunk traits; internet, hacking people (well their spirits), cyborgs (spirits who control a mechanical body), etc. But... This isn't because of normal advancement of technology. This is because the Spirit World who thanks to all the spirits who have passed onto there has been able to advance at a much faster rate (think about it all the great minds of past generations working together). But then the Spirit World and our World mixed so a big technological boom. But so rapid things like horses, knights, etc. still coexist beside this stuff. It is also even more messed up in that this explosion of technology is cyclical, it has been happening again and again. Where the Spirit World and our World mix and then separate. This separation stalls our technological process but we kept much of the technology, then we have another explosion but because of the stall not much advances... Yeah, I guess "post-present" be closest, but I dunno... [B]-Artificial World Setting:[/B] Another, I dunno setting. The world has advanced pretty far, too essentially a Magipunk world, but with some more advanced stuff, ie; mecha and such powered by connecting to ley-lines. However, this is because reality was warped and is being controlled by a collective of Aberrations, so... Things could change on the fly. To top it off too the world isn't real it is a big artificial world that was originally a "flash-image" of a previous world created by the Gods through technology and is controlled by a God-Machine well was... before it began to malfunction. I guess... post-present since whatever the old world was I guess be considered the "present" of this universe. [/QUOTE]
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