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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
It's not that simple. The official starting point of TL4 is 1450. People stopped building castles, as such, toward the end of the 1500s. And only because the threat became armies with increasingly heavy gunpowder artillery. Castles would be perfectly practical defenses against, say, zombie legions, or giant monsters,
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And it's not like fortresses went away, or stopped being built. The designs changed to better resist and utilize artillery, so they didn't look like what we think of as a castle anymore past a certain point...
The social changes also made it much less likely over time that a new fortress would be built as the seat of a land-holding lord, which often was the role of earlier castles.