Post #945523
2026-04-05 01:45 UTC
One of the many fun parts of treating history as a dumpster into which I dive for fantasy tidbits, instead of a source of rules to be followed:
Sometimes I'll come across reference to some historian who's been totally debunked, _utterly discredited_ by modern scholars for wrongheaded assertions about how something worked in ye olden tymes.
I get SO excited to track that discredited work down and absorb it as a source. 😂
#TTRPG #WorldBuilding
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@trib@aus.social 2026-04-05 02:07
@SJohnRoss terrible conclusions from historical explorers, scientists, and other luminaries about why something exists in the world are a beautifully rich vein. Taking those things and making them *true* or *even more wrong* are both fantastic. Phlogiston? Real! 4-element universe? You got the 4 wrong and the universe works fundamentally differently; it's still 4, though, just not the 4 you think. Geocentric astronomical model? You got it right. But what's outside the sphere, and what causes stars to twinkle?
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@ljwrites@writeout.ink 2026-04-05 13:40
@SJohnRoss Actual historical dumpster dive!