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History & Memory

Give your world a past that pushes on the present.

  1. What event is celebrated as a victory but was actually a disaster for some?

  2. What technology, magic, or knowledge has been lost, and who is searching for it?

  3. What ruin sits in plain sight, and what was it before?

  4. What date does the calendar count from, and what does that date hide?

  5. What was the last empire, and what fragments of it survive in language and law?

  6. What artifact does every museum claim a copy of?

  7. Who is officially a hero but, by modern standards, a war criminal?

  8. What disease is a folk memory but no longer exists?

  9. What did the ancestors fear that the modern world dismisses — and who turns out to be right?

  10. What language did the upper class speak two hundred years ago that survives only in legal terms?

  11. What border was redrawn within living memory, and who has not accepted the new map?

  12. What was the cost of the last technological leap, and who paid it?

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