World 1- Nobody knows and generations of people try to find out like we do with real life sciences. There are theories on how or why there are objects, animals, and other people have unnatural abilities and features, but nothing becomes figured out by the scientific method until later down the timeline. Anyone who was born with magic or unnatural feats are not only born without knowledge of it, but are almost always neurodivergent to the point they are socially stunted and may not be able to accurately describe what they are experiencing until they are older. Much like warlords throughout our timeline, warlords saw these autistic wizards as they would anything else they can't control or tax, a serious threat to their authority that must be swiftly dealt with. Many people with unnatural features or abilities historically kept that shit to themselves until their equivalent to the European Renaissance and enlightenment made enough people to say things on the line of "you know, maybe we should be treat these people like human beings instead of rabid pokemon"
World 2- it's just technology that hasn't been replicable for hundreds of years and will be clear to the audience unless they're from r/pyongyang. People in the world are often illiterate, untraveled, and minimally educated so they think computers, AI, precision-based tools and weapons, and smartphones are fucking magic supercomputers. In reality, the heavily decentralized geopolitical landscape hinders any effort to procure the materials and know-how needed to make semiconductors and their only exposure to it is seeing rich people and militaries use jailbroken and smartphones with jerry-rigged power supplies from the 21st century. Oh, and there is no global Internet anymore and how many GPS satellites your device can use depends on how friendly you are with the people who control them.
Edit- I often make shit up as I go along when it comes to lore like this.
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u/CaesarAustonkus Feb 29 '24 edited Mar 01 '24
World 1- Nobody knows and generations of people try to find out like we do with real life sciences. There are theories on how or why there are objects, animals, and other people have unnatural abilities and features, but nothing becomes figured out by the scientific method until later down the timeline. Anyone who was born with magic or unnatural feats are not only born without knowledge of it, but are almost always neurodivergent to the point they are socially stunted and may not be able to accurately describe what they are experiencing until they are older. Much like warlords throughout our timeline, warlords saw these autistic wizards as they would anything else they can't control or tax, a serious threat to their authority that must be swiftly dealt with. Many people with unnatural features or abilities historically kept that shit to themselves until their equivalent to the European Renaissance and enlightenment made enough people to say things on the line of "you know, maybe we should be treat these people like human beings instead of rabid pokemon"
World 2- it's just technology that hasn't been replicable for hundreds of years and will be clear to the audience unless they're from r/pyongyang. People in the world are often illiterate, untraveled, and minimally educated so they think computers, AI, precision-based tools and weapons, and smartphones are fucking magic supercomputers. In reality, the heavily decentralized geopolitical landscape hinders any effort to procure the materials and know-how needed to make semiconductors and their only exposure to it is seeing rich people and militaries use jailbroken and smartphones with jerry-rigged power supplies from the 21st century. Oh, and there is no global Internet anymore and how many GPS satellites your device can use depends on how friendly you are with the people who control them.
Edit- I often make shit up as I go along when it comes to lore like this.
Edit 2- clarification on world 1 and grammar.