>>503046856That's mostly a way to get around certain sensibilities and technologies being very different from actual 17th century Europe.
I use magic to explain things like logistics, for example.
The character Mamiko comes from a country called Shotou (่ซธๅณถ) which is fairly far from Creusa, but using magic, "fast travel" is a thing that exist in their world.
It's the equivalent of getting on an airplane and taking a flight. But it also takes a lot of magical skill and money, so traditional travel still exists and is cheaper, just much slower.
Or things like food and health. In medieval societies, even the strongest of men weren't gigantic like modern bodybuilders. But then in my setting, you have giant women like Olga that dwarf regular people. Really, that's because she's a bison, but also attributed to her diet making her larger and stronger.
A lot of stories I write take place around that general time frame. If it's later, there are many holes I cannot fill since I don't know and things are still developing. If it's much earlier, I have to do a lot more research. 2010s were when I was at the height of my awareness and I have to do less research to understand things since I was there.
I remember when I first played Shenmue, I saw the part about calling up the weather station to get the forecast and I was shocked, thinking that was a 1980s Japan specific thing. But then my mother informed me that was a common occurrence in the 1980s.
That being said, I think that a lot of speculative fiction does that as well, but maybe more subconsciously. I've read some of the Lensman books and I feel like a lot of the morality and sensibilities presented are rooted in the 1930s when they were written, despite taking place in the far future. Same with Legend of the Galactic Heroes having a lot in common with 1980s Japan despite taking place in the far future. At least for Phezzan's culture and the FPA's culture to some extent. But that may just be my skewed perception.
