The deer's blog.

The seven celestial gods! The world created by the hands of the gods... Everything is false, everything is a lie! The final days have come... Now, let everything be destroyed!

Yeah, that does make it rather difficult, doesn't it....

I guess "ignore it" is always an option, although I'm probably only saying that because the part I'm interested in is the Nasuverse part and not the Linebarrels part....

Spoiler:

Personally, I don't think that the "date" thing is that much of an issue, excepting perhaps if you talk to Aoko (or Zelretch, I guess...). There's no way to tell what date it is without some sort of reference point, because dates are an entirely man-made construct. You could find evidence of a past civilisation, yes, but there's no way you'd know it was really the year 2712 and not 2012, and nor is that statement even particularly meaningful....

The whole "everyone being descended from stitched-together corpses" thing is a lot harder to reconcile with the Nasuverse, though, because of how magi work. You'd have to give said corpses the soul of a magus, somehow. And, of course, it makes long-lived characters like Zouken very hard to involve in any meaningful way.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave! Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded!"
- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

Originally Posted by Mike1984

Yeah, that does make it rather difficult, doesn't it....

I guess "ignore it" is always an option, although I'm probably only saying that because the part I'm interested in is the Nasuverse part and not the Linebarrels part....

Spoiler:

Personally, I don't think that the "date" thing is that much of an issue, excepting perhaps if you talk to Aoko (or Zelretch, I guess...). There's no way to tell what date it is without some sort of reference point, because dates are an entirely man-made construct. You could find evidence of a past civilisation, yes, but there's no way you'd know it was really the year 2712 and not 2012, and nor is that statement even particularly meaningful....

The whole "everyone being descended from stitched-together corpses" thing is a lot harder to reconcile with the Nasuverse, though, because of how magi work. You'd have to give said corpses the soul of a magus, somehow. And, of course, it makes long-lived characters like Zouken very hard to involve in any meaningful way.

Well, I am attempting to work with this. While this is quite difficult, it is not impossible.

So far I have a magical conspiracy, middle-aged Rin with a pistol, and Zelretch punching out the moon again.