10-09-2015, 03:41 AM
Ok, thanks for the links. I'm not sure I envision my latter Blackmoor as a fully modern society, I mean with mass production of goods and suchlike.
I'm more inclined to have it as a technomagic society, where technomagic "toys" are only partially available to the population at large.
For example, Blackmoor houses have all running water, magical or gas lights and heating or only the rich have such things?
Who can afford a domestic construct for doing chores?
I'm not sure I want blackmoorians as builders of skyscrapers, as I think relics of such huge buildings should be still around in the world (even if Blackmoor city was completely destroyed) after "only" 4000 years.
In my article about New Blackmoor in 3050 BC in Threshold issue #2 (i.e. the area of modern Known World) I rather envisioned blackmoorian society as something like a steampunk society, visually, with technomagic instead of steam.
Their "trains" are magical power lines, of which almost nothing remains now. But if they had an extensive net of railways, factories and skyscrapers, a huge number of relics would still be around in modern Mystara.
But I still like very much your story about the Last Days of Blackmoor, for what I've read so far!
I'm more inclined to have it as a technomagic society, where technomagic "toys" are only partially available to the population at large.
For example, Blackmoor houses have all running water, magical or gas lights and heating or only the rich have such things?
Who can afford a domestic construct for doing chores?
I'm not sure I want blackmoorians as builders of skyscrapers, as I think relics of such huge buildings should be still around in the world (even if Blackmoor city was completely destroyed) after "only" 4000 years.
In my article about New Blackmoor in 3050 BC in Threshold issue #2 (i.e. the area of modern Known World) I rather envisioned blackmoorian society as something like a steampunk society, visually, with technomagic instead of steam.
Their "trains" are magical power lines, of which almost nothing remains now. But if they had an extensive net of railways, factories and skyscrapers, a huge number of relics would still be around in modern Mystara.
But I still like very much your story about the Last Days of Blackmoor, for what I've read so far!