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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
similar to the elaborate and fanciful tales about Africa in the 19th century. So even if a lot of Daring's books are true, ponies might just dismiss a lot of it as fiction, which for all they know it is.
I thought about that, but A) Equestria's tech is probably early 20th century at the worst (routine long distance rail travel), and B) the area where Daring Do is is a lot closer than Africa was.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWell it had arcade games in H&HD. But it's big on Schizo Tech in general. So early 20th century is a conservative estimate, they have some stuff that's a lot more modern.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWho says that the fans don't know that the places or villians are real? There are plenty of books with antagonists and places based on reality. They don't know that Daring is real. They don't visit the locations because Ahizotl is real and dangerous and as far as they're concerned, Daring isn't real to look after them.
The villians don't want to admit that Daring is real because that would be admitting that thy get regularly beat by an author.
As for setting consistency, I live in a place where shacks and high class houses are basically across the street from each other. I see no problem.
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Honestly, this makes a lot more sense. Fits with the Indiana Jones theme. Daring might have written the books to keep ponies away from her archaeological digs or something.
edited 10th Dec '13 11:30:53 AM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryOr as a backup. Get the information out there in a way lots of ponies will learn everything they can about it. if she wrote them as real, if she tried to tell others, "Meh, not my problem". But, make it a story, get it popular novel series. And you have ponies like Twi and RD learning every single detail, knowing everything there is to know.
If the villians were real but Daring Do wasn't, that'd mean that there'd have been 800 years of heat by now.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOr that Ahuizotl got stopped by someone else, or that he didn't manage to get all the rings for some other reason. They'd probably just assume that the elements of the story existed, (Ahuizotl, the rings, the temple, etc.) but the specific sequence of events that occurred in the story simply occurred differently.
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The villains being real doesn't mean everypony must automatically assume the book depicts them 100% accurately.
To give you an example, Vlad Tepes was into impailing a lot, but I'm pretty sure he didn't transform into a bat at any point.
You don't. I did :D
edited 10th Dec '13 12:15:14 PM by Luminosity
Just discussing the implications of whether the reality of Daring Do's adventures are known in universe are not.
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Well she wouldn't be doing her job if she wasn't researching the artefact that she was looking for.
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