So you like your magic settings where the magic has filled in for tech? Got it g
Yesssssssss XD
I like to use magic for "what if" scenarios, like 'what if you had a culture with terrible transportation BUT that had a lot of useful tools that just didn't help them move faster'. Or 'what if magic was plentiful and protected every citizen's autonomy and met their basic needs -- what sort of problems would they still have?'
I can buy that a society could get crushed enough to lose all their ability to generate technology -- where you get caught in this death spiral of "gotta hunt and gather to survive today because if I stop to do anything more intelligent, I will starve", basically. But I agree that if a society got slammed so hard they could not longer figure out steam engines, they'd also lose literature. That the Isolation was deliberate to a greater or lesser degree is much more likely, yeah.
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So you like your magic settings where the magic has filled in for tech? Got it g
Yesssssssss XD
I like to use magic for "what if" scenarios, like 'what if you had a culture with terrible transportation BUT that had a lot of useful tools that just didn't help them move faster'. Or 'what if magic was plentiful and protected every citizen's autonomy and met their basic needs -- what sort of problems would they still have?'
I can buy that a society could get crushed enough to lose all their ability to generate technology -- where you get caught in this death spiral of "gotta hunt and gather to survive today because if I stop to do anything more intelligent, I will starve", basically. But I agree that if a society got slammed so hard they could not longer figure out steam engines, they'd also lose literature. That the Isolation was deliberate to a greater or lesser degree is much more likely, yeah.