<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=328801.msg15719033#msg15719033">Quote from: pdragon on 17-01-2021, 19:24:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">About the baroness thing, I'm still not clear on what the state of the world actually is. The initial opener implies we're emerging from a big cataclysmic event and are in a thrown together village/settlement, but having barons and nobles implies that the world has recovered enough to re-establish a traditional aristocratic power structure. Is it possible to get some more detailed background on what actually happened/how long ago it was/how long it's been since it ended?<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>My thinking (but obviously, we are a team and can change things!) was that it was recently enough that long-lived races could have elders remembering the old world, but that short-lived races would have no memory of it. In fiction, my plan was to have magic be something that has gotten so common and so powerful, but now a lot of what even the ancient beings understood about magic has changed and shifted!<br/><br/>Instead of cities, think little settlements and villages or outposts, tiny communities trying to make a new life versus armed groups having grabbed old ruins and preying on the people around them in a kind of Mad Max way.<br/><br/>I heard Baroness and immediately pictured someone who had found some big trove of jewels and finery, called themself nobility, and runs a bandit gang! Stealing from her would be a scary thing because her outriders could be drawn in! ;)<br/><br/>But I'm also SUPER open to other ideas and interpretations! I want our world to feel nice and weird and your actions to feel BIG.