John Suburbs Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Everyone equates these kinds of fantasy stories with our own Medieval past, either on Earth or some kind of alternate reality? But what if the series is actually set in our future, say, half a million years or so? Continental land masses will have shifted, and this great civilization of ours will have faded, but not before we'd unlocked many more secrets in chemistry, biology, etc, that allowed for the creation of new forms of life: dragons, walking dead, tiny almond-eyed beings, virulent diseases, the whole lot. After a while, the origins of these "magical creatures" would have been lost, and only those with the proper lore could hope to control them, even if they didn't understand the actual science behind their creation. Over time, all of these creatures would have migrated to wherever they could survive, and then mankind went about relearning all the knowledge that was lost (fire, farming, metallurgy, ship-building) so that they eventually reached new lands and came in contact with these genetically engineered creatures. We are now back to a feudal/pre-Rennaisance period, with the twist that all of the lasting creations of the earlier science/technology era are still here. Valyria was probably the last seat for much of this knowledge, what with their advanced roads and who knows what else is in the Smoldering Sea. So in reality, there is no magic here, only the science of a distant and forgotten past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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