[@ViolentViolet] I like it! And having a village educator telling stories to the kids about the outside world fills in a lot of holes. Lots of small towns and villages will have questionable knowledge of the outside world, flawed with stories of elves stealing children, dwarven cannibals, and urgals growing to the size of mountains, none of these things have any evidence supporting it, and yet people don't have any evidence against it and it's exactly the kind of thing small uneducated isolated villagers would believe. Having well traveled people, and ones willing to tell stories of the world to children, essentially bypasses these flaws.