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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Hedgehog" data-source="post: 2276849" data-attributes="member: 8325"><p>Wow, great ideas.&nbsp; The reason why it's &quot;forgotten&quot; as opposed to never heard of, is because it was originally settled by people from the &quot;Known World&quot; ages ago.&nbsp; There used to be a mighty civilization, but it got wiped out in a cataclysm, Atlantis-style.&nbsp; A lot of land was swept away as well, which is why this other continent is so difficult to reach now.&nbsp; During that empire, technology reached say about the level of the Roman Empire; afterwards, most peoples (well, humans and halflings at least) basically had to start over from scratch, degenerating back to stone age scavengers before rediscovering civilization.&nbsp; The inspiration for all this was &quot;Underworld&quot; by Graham Hancock.&nbsp; By looking at strange formations and ruins all over the world, he posits that there was a great prehistorical civilization that managed to conquer the oceans, but was wiped out at the end of the last ice age when the oceans rose, because they lived along the coasts of places now underwater.&nbsp; He reckons that explains why things like Stonehenge and other great stoneage ruins appear seemingly out of nowhere in the historical record.&nbsp; I wanted to use this idea in my world to give the PCs a sense that the world was bigger and older than they ever imagined.&nbsp; But thanks again for the ideas!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Crazy Hedgehog, post: 2276849, member: 8325"] Wow, great ideas. The reason why it's "forgotten" as opposed to never heard of, is because it was originally settled by people from the "Known World" ages ago. There used to be a mighty civilization, but it got wiped out in a cataclysm, Atlantis-style. A lot of land was swept away as well, which is why this other continent is so difficult to reach now. During that empire, technology reached say about the level of the Roman Empire; afterwards, most peoples (well, humans and halflings at least) basically had to start over from scratch, degenerating back to stone age scavengers before rediscovering civilization. The inspiration for all this was "Underworld" by Graham Hancock. By looking at strange formations and ruins all over the world, he posits that there was a great prehistorical civilization that managed to conquer the oceans, but was wiped out at the end of the last ice age when the oceans rose, because they lived along the coasts of places now underwater. He reckons that explains why things like Stonehenge and other great stoneage ruins appear seemingly out of nowhere in the historical record. I wanted to use this idea in my world to give the PCs a sense that the world was bigger and older than they ever imagined. But thanks again for the ideas! [/QUOTE]

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