[Discuss] BM Setting

[Timothy Collett]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Lyman Stone wrote:
> Venice and Florence and the swiss nations are post-BM, which, so  
> far as I am aware, would be something like 1000-1300. Venice and  
> Florence dont, as far as I am aware, start really gaining power  
> until about 1350 or 1400.

This is, and always has been, one of my big pet peeves: people who  
try to pin down *exactly* where and when BattleMaster is supposed to  
be "taking place."

It's not.  It's not Europe.  It's not Earth--or at least, not *our*  
Earth.  It's modeled after the culture of a broad time period from  
(primarily) medieval Europe, but it's not meant to be that specific.   
There are monsters and undead attacking at random everywhere, and  
flooding Beluaterra at irregular intervals.  We have instantaneous  
transmission of messages, people who can't die, and no widespread  
organized religion to speak of on most continents.

Even if you can extrapolate a lot from the base, I don't think it's  
something that can be made as specific as "up to 1300, but not 1350."

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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