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Originally Posted by Agemegos
When I wanted my players to actually pay attention to the setting brief and not default of vanilla I started by making everything everyone knows about fantasy-land not true. When the setting was a tropical archipelago on a world with no horses, occupied by people of a ~south-east-Asian racial type, where aristocrats owned ships and made their fortunes from trade and kings rode elephants and not horses, and when religion was exploded (deconstructed, I'm told) into three different an unconnected things, then players would believe what I wrote about social structure and government.
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I would love to see more about that setting sometime. By any chance, are you a fan of Ursula K. LeGuin? There seems to be a bit of an Earthsea influence.