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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
Prime32
Since: Jan, 2001
Someone with access to modern technology has to explain how it works to people with a much lower level, usually involving some kind of magic. Alternately, he's trying to gradually prepare them to meet the rest of the world and needs a way to get them to use modern technology (especially with regards to hygiene).
For example, he says he boils water because his religion teaches that it wards off disease demons, his GPS is a bird spirit that constantly guides him from the skies, a legendary hero washed his hands with soap to fight a plague monster, etc.