Medieval Stasis: The Regreening
Medieval Stasis is the strange reality that a lot of fantasy worlds find themselves in a technological state akin to the Middle Ages for thousands of years when the real Middle Ages lasted from the 5th to around the 15th centuries, about a thousand years. That's a decent chunk of human history sure, but a lot of fantasy worlds have been medieval for thousands upon thousands of years. Why? How? Taking this idea seriously invites a lot of interesting questions, and I wanted to just do some world building to explore that and the other anachronisms so familiar to D&D which I was interested in as I have been lovingly coerced into running a game of 5e. It turned into a much expanded project in order to account for the weirdness of a world in stasis and all the cacophony of 5e. Inspiration from Was It Likely for the idea of a stolen world. The Regreening From Princess Mononoke The continent was once covered in the black spires of the necromantic empire of the Deathless Prince, but so...
