08-09-2012, 09:16 AM
Are you sure you meant 5 million years ago?
This stuff is too tied up in Wilderlands canon for me to make more specific comments right now. I don't believe the First Men from the WL setting are actually human however.
On a more general note, which is what I guess you were asking for in the OP, we know that even in the RW stone age, "the period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking" people were often much more sophisticated than what was believed in the past. Extensive trade networks, knowledge of herbs and medicine, and fairly sophisticated religious beliefs and knowledge of astrology as seen in places like stone henge.
No reason why such things would not also have existed in Blackmoor's past.
IMC I have an Ice Age back 5000 years before the founding of Thonia (NC-5000). In the milennia following that Ice Age the humans of the region went from Stone Age technology to Bronze Age to Iron Age as described in Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor.
Ofcourse, what happened before the Ice Age could be reconciled with Wilderlands material should one wish it.
Basically I am thinking there could be a Pre-Ice Age civilization ala Conan's Hyperboria, which would correspond to Kelnore. The WL region would not have been covered by the Ice Age (though probably weakened by it) thus making room for the Kelnoran Successor states.
-Havard
This stuff is too tied up in Wilderlands canon for me to make more specific comments right now. I don't believe the First Men from the WL setting are actually human however.
On a more general note, which is what I guess you were asking for in the OP, we know that even in the RW stone age, "the period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking" people were often much more sophisticated than what was believed in the past. Extensive trade networks, knowledge of herbs and medicine, and fairly sophisticated religious beliefs and knowledge of astrology as seen in places like stone henge.
No reason why such things would not also have existed in Blackmoor's past.
IMC I have an Ice Age back 5000 years before the founding of Thonia (NC-5000). In the milennia following that Ice Age the humans of the region went from Stone Age technology to Bronze Age to Iron Age as described in Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor.
Ofcourse, what happened before the Ice Age could be reconciled with Wilderlands material should one wish it.
Basically I am thinking there could be a Pre-Ice Age civilization ala Conan's Hyperboria, which would correspond to Kelnore. The WL region would not have been covered by the Ice Age (though probably weakened by it) thus making room for the Kelnoran Successor states.
-Havard
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