Drakevarg
Troubadour
One important aspect that inevitably comes up with my current "overarching project" of an overall timeline in my slow-moving worldbuilding attempts is the way religion and superstition evolve over time. And perhaps just as importantly in a world where the supernatural and the afterlife are observable facts, how they differ from the "mystic truth" as I pithily put it in the title.
What I mean by the "mystic truth" is the way spirituality, magic, divinity and so forth actually, mechanically function in a fantasy environment, in contrast to what ever perceptions are held by the commonfolk, dogma, or whatever limited observations can be made using the scientific method in a world where the laws of physics know you're watching.
On top of that, the perception of the supernatural inevitably changes over time between the advance of concrete knowledge, cultural interplay, the rise and fall of organized faiths, and perhaps even cosmic upheaval where the physical and metaphysical laws have legitimately changed around the observers.
In other words, what is is different than what is believed is different than what was believed.
I don't have time at this moment to give specific examples from my own writings, but I figured it might be interesting to open up the subject to the rest of you in the meantime, get some perspective on how others approach such a subject.
What I mean by the "mystic truth" is the way spirituality, magic, divinity and so forth actually, mechanically function in a fantasy environment, in contrast to what ever perceptions are held by the commonfolk, dogma, or whatever limited observations can be made using the scientific method in a world where the laws of physics know you're watching.
On top of that, the perception of the supernatural inevitably changes over time between the advance of concrete knowledge, cultural interplay, the rise and fall of organized faiths, and perhaps even cosmic upheaval where the physical and metaphysical laws have legitimately changed around the observers.
In other words, what is is different than what is believed is different than what was believed.
I don't have time at this moment to give specific examples from my own writings, but I figured it might be interesting to open up the subject to the rest of you in the meantime, get some perspective on how others approach such a subject.