[quote=Alfhedil]
Mmmmm.... I would actually be very careful with that, as that pretty much gives people free-license to insert whatever they want by ways of building logic-bridges. It would really be for the best if we simply stuck with pre-500 and the hundred or so years around that time-line, that way it would give people a good time-frame to work with and ensure that everyone is on an even playing field more or less.
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I second this.

As in, QFT. 

To be fair Haz, that ruling pretty much renders the RP's premise, this being a pre-500 AD setting, completely moot.

[quote=TheSovereignGrave]
I don't mean to sound rude but I'm noticing that there's quite a few nations that have some sort of widespread education system. Did that ever happen in the ancient world? I mean, I don't expect everything to be just like it was on Earth but isn't the idea of educating anyone aside from nobles and priests relatively new?
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This sounds like a cultural (and legislative) thing, as well as a player's species' method of thinking.

You sort of do have a point.