If our reality was the setting of a fantasy novel written in another universe, what would that world be like?
Like, Earth is to that planet as Narnia is to Earth.
Posted Sep 22, 2016, 8:24 PM UTC
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A universe with magic is ultimately different from our own reality because there's not any definitive evidence in our world that human consciousness can change the physical reality of the world without having a physical limb to enact that change with. Particular worlds and their specific magic systems may vary, but in a fantasy world where people can wield magic like a tool and there are also souls, gods concretely proven to exist, etc. then our reality would be fantasy because it's the distinct opposite. Our "magic" is that a person cannot simply perform a ritual to wield massive destructive power, they must invent a weapon, and they can't heal themselves through will and energy, they must discover medical knowledge.
Edit: Our cultures would fascinate the world with magic because we don't know for sure if any of our religions are true. There are so many uncertain battles that came down to the wire spectacularly.
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I feel like at one hand our world would be some kind of allegorical b but humorous political treatise written by another race who feel disenfranchised by humans or just really doesn't like them [the humans]. Or it might just be written by a racist elf.
Book one I feel like would be about the Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamians. Monotheism was a written satirically that humans will believe literally anything if they can't see their gods all the time.
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I imagine it would be pretty much like the world from The Giver if they were allowed to have imagination.
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In my fantasy world people can communicate across continents at the touch of a button, travel faster than a galloping horse, capture what they see on a device to remember it forever...
... and there is no terrible price to pay. The gods do not care.
Of course this is the most childish sort of wish fulfilment fantasy.
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I think it depends on who in the world is imaging it! But the classic fantasy world of ours could easily be what is imaging our world as their own fantasy. (Sometimes I wonder if I am I a PC, or an NPC?)
Perhaps their world is constant orc raids and the young soldier dreams of settling into a world where there is no magic, no orcs and cities and towns aren't walled off or constantly raided.
Perhaps our world is a fantasy to theirs because of our political intrigue and (potential) conspiracies lurking around every corner (look at Snowden and the rise in terror attacks).