@DevWouter@mastodon.social
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
That’s a difficult one. Personally I find it difficult to integrate a fictional world with the factual one (both as an author and as consumer) in a good way. These periods introduce technology which have fundamental factual rules (like combustion) which science can explain which is a fundamental different explanation than “just magic”.
There is YouTube thesis out there about the videogame Arcanum which describes it better.
If you want I can try and find it for you?
Jürgen Hubert@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
@DevWouter@mastodon.social
The distinction between magic and science was always a little fuzzy in earlier centuries, as any number of alchemists will show. I certainly wouldn't turn them into "opposing forces" like it is done with Arcanum.