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Global changes
Most fantasy worlds don't tend to handle things like major changes in the climate due to say magic misuse or something. Is this because people today still don't think about this subject much, it has never been suggested before or because it simply is a stupid idea for a fantasy world? (Ecological catastrophes following magical explosion I believe have happened sometimes...)
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9/18/2007, 5:21 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Global changes
Well, a lot of fantasy worlds are set in a middle-ages-like time period, with limited technology. In such a situation, there is unlikely to be a noticable technological cause of large-scale climate change.
On the other hand, like QS pointed out, magic could percievably be a cause of something similar to our global warming (or global cooling). Occasionally magic is cited as the cause for massive changes in precipitation, etc -- things that set up epic scenarios of famine and potential war in many fantasy series. But there's no reason more permanent climate change couldn't be discussed as well.
Perhaps you have two rival groups of mages who are at war with each other. In order to avoid injuring innocent non-mages, they've agreed to restrict their battles to the realm of the sky. Unfortunately, that resulted in the creation of various particulates in the air, which (depending on the particulate) either cooled or warmed the world -- for some generations to come. Who points out to the mages what they've done, and that they're only going to make it worse if they keep fighting the way they are? How do the people of this fantasy world overcome (or fail to overcome) this dilemma?
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Re: Global changes
That is an interesting idea, imagine a multi century running war which for some reason resolves and then bam suddenly the climate resets with a few decades to what it was before the war. Could be a pretty traumatic and new war inducing event, creating a never ending cycle until they perhaps figure out what is going on.
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9/18/2007, 6:50 pm
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