The Thirteenth Century

The thirteenth century, from the ordinary man's perspective was (in both the east and the west of the world) a time when people did not question the extraordinary. And when it came to talents and events that were most unusual, they simply accepted them.

For example: the majority of commonfolk could not draw or write more than their name. Then there were the few who painted their visions and portraits so vividly and realistically that they embodied life - and their skills were so far beyond the ordinary reach, yet they were accepted.

Engineers and composers, whose talents advanced, proving themselves, in fanciful cathedrals, in allegros and concertos - these too were taken to be marvels - and yet accepted.

The saintly and the magician, and yes, the very magic of the Fey, were similarly, and likewise, unquestioned.

If things were simply taken for what they were - what they were seen to be, then they were what they were. The people did not question what they saw.

It was only much later as the centuries progressed that doubt and questions scorned the Holy, the inspired, and the magician's works.

Curiously this happened at exactly the same time that the other Arts simplified - paintings became abstract, buildings, functional, and tunes grew repeated choruses.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS, Second Chances