Talk:New World/@comment-31365092-20180308025441/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180619060433

It depends on perspective.

The New World experiences influxes of Players fairly often, and fairly recently. They also had Dragon Lords flying around much more commonly before the 8GK killed most of those off.

These events are distant enough to be 'ancient history' to the average person, but they are NOT mere myth. And the world contains races (and individuals) which hold events like the rampage of the Evil Deities and the quests of the Thirteen Heroes in living memory. The reaction of New Worlder "modernists" who discount out of hand the existence of things beyond their everyday "common sense" despite such things are stupid, but explicable.

It's like a teenager from today meeting a WWII veteran and discounting them as making up stories based on the movies. The stupidity of this is palpable to anyone with a proper grounding in history, but it is a commonplace to meet kids with just that little perspective.

The difference is, in the New World, all baseline humans (and members of most other races) would never live long enough to outgrow that embarrasing phase. So you have entire nations being run by people who basically think WWII veterans and Captain America have the same level of credible possibility of existing. Or Elon Musk and Tony Stark, Mother Teresa and Wonder Woman, X that is real and Y that is totally fictional.