User blog comment:Zaarqawi/Why players from YGGDRASIL have been transported to the New World at various periods of time./@comment-118.100.217.90-20151108124614/@comment-27168967-20151108155515

@Rimus

If simply by looking at someone "knowing" something, I would say even you can spout out a number of ideas cause there's really no real hard challenge to say out something that you have been exposed to since household appliances are some of the things we use on a daily basis. How would someone usually say when you describe a fridge? It's machine running on electricity which would keep the food stored in it fresh longer that normal. For a player that came from an era where the internet gateway exists partially inside a person's head, I doubt he cannot even explain what's the use of a fridge though not being able to explain the wirings and stuffs is a given unless the player has some direct contact with electronics. Even having an enclosed but accessible space constantly frozen is already a crude but effective way of a fridge since the coldness is really what we need in the end but the Beastmen may not be able to cast spells. Still, the idea of this sage not even being able to come up with such an idea?

Then, there's also that one part where this Sage proposed modern surgery. We do know that surgery is performed during times when the parts of our bodies are not salvageable anymore but can we really say what transpires on a surgery table as in what medication is needed during certain surgeries or how many pint of blood is needed every time a surgery is performed? I've seen some surgeries up close and one being my own little surgery, wide awake and looking at the real time video as it shows the doctor operating on me (somewhere behind my left ear) because of circumstances but I still don't understand the underlying works of what's happening in front of me. Knowing doesn't really necessitate a person understanding all the processes and circumstances.

By simply looking at it this way, if the minatour sage really is a player this sage may not be too young to understand how to surf the internet for information cause most of the general ideas can be obtained from the web pretty easily but should also be of a certain age to have some interest in the professional professions to say the least. Probably a greenhorn college student. The youngest possibility would range around the later years of high school. If it's something of a backup NPC, then the master may have at least some connection to the medical world. Probably a supplier of medical instruments but definitely nothing directly in the medical field.

There's another reason I'm opting for backup NPC possibility. The sage is too unconcerned about what he says. A normal person wouldn't really say something about cutting up someone just because it's a better alternative for curing internal injuries because as far as we had seen in Overlord, there's really no doctor certified enough to hold the knife and definitely no biology classes around. Wouldn't the sage at least consider the possibility of death? Or maybe it's just the heat of the moment but wouldn't this minatour worry for a second about who's going to sew up the open wound at a time where antibiotics are non-existent? That would also foreshadow something about the Beastmen. They may not have the foundation in potion making, maybe just to the point of using herbs that wouldn't do much good and thus needed human slaves for those productions. Well, as I have always say in the end... this is at least how I see it.