Post/Author/DateTime	Post
kedi 07-29-03, 07:00 AM	This is a serious question I ask to my self, why magic is so common in far-off lands? Like half legendary Halrua, Aglorand a powerful nation ruled by a sorcerer called the Simbul(as we all know :D) the rashemen, and the pure evil thay . . . Why magic is common in those places? Why does barbarism is common in northeren tondras(I hope i spelled right) but not magic, what's common in eastern lands of faerun? (Don't tell me that sorcery in aglorand common because of Simbul, in that case, shadowdale should be a mythal :) )
Faraer 07-29-03, 09:15 AM	Far-off lands are magical because they were designed as exotic, rumoured places on the horizon, with magics unknown to 'us'. (Aglarond has an unusually *low* incidence of mages, though.) There are barbarians in the north because cold-clime barbarians are a staple of heroic fantasy (Conan, Fafhrd) and it's cold in the north.
Triton 07-29-03, 10:10 AM	Faerun sees a lot of barbarian classes in the North because the human stock there were discouraged from practicing magic by the Creator Race (Neverwinter Nights). They wanted a slave race, not a magic race to compete with them. The distant east is the opposite. The Dragonian psion/sorceror from beyond the stars(http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/1936/timeline.html). He taught his human followers magic and encouraged the use of it. He established rule by a mage council (the Imperial Magisters). These two very different ways of "raising" humans created two very different cultures. One hated magic as an oppressive force. The other saw it as a tool to attain power and get more done.Timeline of Imaskar and the Phaerimm