The Future of the World?

[Agrajag]

Humans are the cockroaches of fantasy worlds.
Constantly breeding and ever adaptive, they use sheer tenacity and stupidity to overwhelm the opposition.

Sure as heck we do! In fact, in most fantasy settings i have to constantly wonder why humans *don't* dominate everyone else, (say, in the ever-popular Forgotten Realms) Dominions is actually a nice exception to the rule. Ok, the complete undead are out since they kind of obviously win in any fantasy setting but other than that, there are still races that should outcompete humans in the dominions world. C'tis is a likely candidate, due to sheer population volume. (Laying eggs really is more efficient to produce cannon fod.., uh, offspring) But R'lyeh also look good.
Standars elves as seen in a hundred fantasy settings? Pshaw, living a few hundred years while still maintainting a constant population size means a birthrate far too low to compensate even for a single major war.

[moodgiesanta]

Tortanick said:
Has the "time of man" ever come to an end in fantasy books? I'd love to see how writers do that.

I can't speak for fantasy books but the game Rudra no Hihou is basically completely about the end of the "time of man" in a fantasy setting.

Anyway I'm apt to think that, in Dominions, magic is fading from the world and in the far far far off future all these "gods" and "mages" are merely legends and the world is basically like our own, with no trace of all the magic in the past. Kind of the idea that Dominions is the history of our own world, as magic was fading from it.