zizban
Troubadour
For the world in my upcomming novel, I started with the premise that a stone fell out of the skies, endowing the nomadic humans in the region with a readily available magic and also changing them so they lived a lot longer (3x times) longer than ordinary humans. Fast forward ten of their generations and see what happens.
What I got was the Enlightenment without gunpowder. The magic from the stone made diseases rare and usually curable and medical treatments easy. No need for gun powder since nearly everyone had magic anyway. At first everything was a little too easy for my world so I limited the influence of the stone to a certain radius and not everyone had magic. Also, only those descended from the original humans when the stone came got all the benefis of it. Humans who came after were just "normal".
The net result was a relatively stable empire surrounded by unstable "barbarian" human nations. Into this, my main character arrives, a normal human in a big empire of longer lived humans.
What I got was the Enlightenment without gunpowder. The magic from the stone made diseases rare and usually curable and medical treatments easy. No need for gun powder since nearly everyone had magic anyway. At first everything was a little too easy for my world so I limited the influence of the stone to a certain radius and not everyone had magic. Also, only those descended from the original humans when the stone came got all the benefis of it. Humans who came after were just "normal".
The net result was a relatively stable empire surrounded by unstable "barbarian" human nations. Into this, my main character arrives, a normal human in a big empire of longer lived humans.
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