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 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:09 pm
This world is in a medieval fantasy setting vaguely resembling the late 1400s of western history.
Your biggest cities are cobble stone streets, brick and wood buildings around grand towering castles. Smaller towns may lack the cobblestone paths instead having dirt roads and simpler timber houses.
Most political regions contain at least one fortress which often acts as a sanctuary to people under siege and a keystone to maintaining control of a region.
The level of technology stems from the middle ages, such as limited access to doctors, no electrical systems, automobiles, or plumbing on average. Factories do not exist, so mass production of anything besides crops isn't available. You'll still need to see a cobbler for a pair of shoes, a seamstress for a new dress, a tanner for a leather pouch, a bowmaker and fletcher for your hunting gear, and a blacksmith for your armor, and metal tools. Luckily the merchant quarter is crawling with such artisan businesses. There's craftspeople of greater skill here and there across the world as well.
However, there is a mix of magic and sorcery that is applied to daily life and convenience as well. Where medical efforts may prove ineffectual there are spells to cure and cull diseases. Magic can be used to imbue objects with special properties such as reinforcement or illumination.
Plumbing is a recently implemented perk to the Capital City, but currently other nation cities (except water which uses a different system entirely) are limited to wells and simple pumps.
Weapons and Armaments are generally constructed of bronze, iron, steel, wood, or mythic materials of metallic or fibrous nature. This means that while an elf may appear wearing leafweave or mythril armor, a plastic riot shield would be unheard of. Magical enhancements can be placed upon weapons, armor, and imbued into artifacts.
Eastern Influences
Some eastern and middle-eastern influences have made their way into the region in forms such as metallurgy, architecture, philosophy, and technology.
Advanced Technology
Some technology of renaissance to industrial age (such as printing presses, explosives, firearms, and steam engines) is accessible but only to technologists and inventors who actively devote themselves to the pursuit.
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:27 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:30 pm
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