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Stick Figure Mafia posted:Why go back in time and tell them about that when you could let them know the tale of, say, Solid Snake? They would have trouble with the concept of a heroic snake, since snakes would be an immediate and well known danger. You would have to simplify the metaphors and just call him 'Hard Penis'.
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The oldest fairy tale that's still somewhat well known is 'The Smith and the Devil'. It's a story of smith who makes a bargain with a sinister magic creature to learn his trade, but then tricks it. It has existed for about six thousand years in more or less the same shape. The idea that making things out of metal requires magical (and maybe even sinister) power is at least that old. If you go anywhere where they know that fairytale, you just tell them Sauron is the same devil from that story and you're golden. People love sequels.
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Telsa Cola posted:Isengard is a place they've ripped up to mass produce lithics, so its hosed and everywhere you step is razor sharp stone fragments Not a good place to take your hobbits to.
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Applewhite posted:Like, the concept of magic goes way way back, obviously, but I'm not so sure the idea of enchanted objects is as old as magic itself. Making things might be the oldest kind of magic, if we're talking the sort of magic people can gain through "secret knowledge", instead of just the magic of the natural world. As soon as you had stuff that needed some real training and skill to create, you had people who had knowledge most other people did not possess, could do things other people couldn't easily copy, and had learned it from respected and unusual old people. That became magic pretty much instantly.
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