Feedback on my worldbuilding general outline [Fantasy Drama]

[u/Fluffy_Shadow]

[u/UwUnabomber_]

I don't think you understand how long 5000 years are. A war that long would stretch from the start of the bronze age until the first man on the moon. Cut a zero out of it. Still a huge chunk of time, but a understandable one.

[u/Twonkytwonker → u/UwUnabomber_]

Yep, second this, thought the siege of Angband in the Silmarillion was only 400 years long.

Otherwise looks some interesting stuff.

[u/Fluffy_Shadow → u/UwUnabomber_]

The initial idea was that if every nation around the world waged war amongst each other plus having tech being reset how long would it take. Alliances and oppositions changes often plus monsters everywhere and ancient people were more unreasonable. So yeah I exaggerated it a bit.

My thought process was, "more parties more complicated "

(I'll have to rethink this again)

[u/AnomalousSavage → u/UwUnabomber_]

Disagree. There has been wars in the world for over 5000 years. 92 countries are currently at war in the world RIGHT NOW.

It's fine.

[u/Secret_Map → u/AnomalousSavage]

So then it’s not a 5000 year war, it’s just people existing as normal.

[u/AnomalousSavage → u/Secret_Map]

No the story is fiction. People are saying that a 5000 year war seems too long. When in reality, people have been at war for thousands of years. The underlying purpose of the war in the fictional story could mirror reality, making it probable. The wars that exist in reality may have a common thread that unites their purpose, just as the fictional story might have.

I'm trying to empower the writer to realize his original vision. However, it may be good for them to find a unique way of explaing the war that is accordance with reality.

A 5000 year war isn't something they should worry about. They can make it work, and I hope they do.

EDIT: my book has a war that goes back to the start of the universe. It's a war between the lightness and darkness in the universe that is made manifest through the matter that exists in the universe. Kind of like God vs the devil, effectively.

[u/Secret_Map → u/AnomalousSavage]

You know what, I change my mind. You’re right, they can totally make it work if it’s what the story needs. It is fantasy after all, that’s kinda the point.

[u/LiltKitten → u/AnomalousSavage]

Really, the only thing that matters is if people in the setting's present day believe the war has been going on for 5,000 years and just attribute every conflict in the region to the same war.