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[bunyy]

So my idea is this, what if say for a fictional book for example it generated a legends viewer style fake history, including events that never occurred to characters who never existed, if you found a book like that in adventure mode & read it, it'd show you a sort of legends viewer in adventure mode. You could do the same thing with a lot of other creative storytelling, like if a dwarf sings a song about the deeds of a certain hero then in the description of the lyrics it could tell you of how he fought the dragon and said the famous words "Death is all around us, I feel nothing!" but the latter escaped unscathed. You could also use it for myths, histories of the gods and their travels, battles, and social encounters.

[SixOfSpades]

There would probably have to be some kind of tag to notify the reader (the player, if not the adventurer) that the work is fictional, so that he doesn't confuse gods, minotaurs, and elves that don't exist with the gods, minotaurs, and elves that DO exist.

With that said, would a culture steeped in divine intervention, Evil weather, and dragons even bother to think up their own fictionalized versions of same?

[bunyy]

Yeah, a tag would be necessary. Yeah, your probably right, it could instead give you snippets from the actual legends, which would be awesome, and then when you hear a song in the tavern, then you could learn all about some long dead dragonslayer. It'd be cool if there was some stuff about the myths pertaining to deities though, especially if they were real and had lived out epic tales in a time before time. I'd also love to see myths about areas, or causes for the evil biomes.

[LMeire]

There would probably have to be some kind of tag to notify the reader (the player, if not the adventurer) that the work is fictional, so that he doesn't confuse gods, minotaurs, and elves that don't exist with the gods, minotaurs, and elves that DO exist.

With that said, would a culture steeped in divine intervention, Evil weather, and dragons even bother to think up their own fictionalized versions of same?

Ancient RL cultures believed they lived with such things and it never stopped them. Like the Illiad, the whole thing was pretty much just historical/religious fanfiction by Homer but it remains one of the most popular works of fantasy literature today.