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Alright, to clear something up: Is this Earth except with weird magic phenomena or is it a separate universe altogether?
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Good question! Personally I assume we're in a separate universe. Really, though, anything goes in character histories as long as it's completely magic-free and in a Medieval-ish sort of culture and technology level, whether you want to be historically accurate or make it all up. The biggest reason I chose Medieval is because much of the world at that point is still undiscovered, so you can have an enormous forest that no one's ever been to and magic that no one knew existed. that, and everything is just simpler and won't compete with the actual plot. I'm not sure if that's an answer to your question?