[quote=Mokley]
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?
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I was mostly interested in like world cultures at this point. Because if it's Earth there's only so much to work with religion-wise whereas I can create this long drawn-out myth and pantheon as I go along in a separate universe.