Antique Phenomenon

The Antique Phenomenon is a strange occurrence when looking at Tairghol and Earth side-by-side. It concerns the trend that Tairghol cultures develop in eerily similar ways to their Earthly counterparts.
The Phenomenon is partly due to logic. When arriving in Halcyonia, humans kept their memories of Earth, along with their clothing and whatever they happened to be carrying. A lot of the time these items were also kept through the Tyrant's War and taken onto the Halcyonian Flotilla when humanity left Halcyonia.
Consequently, these items from Earth found themselves carried and used by their original owners, who congregated into groups mainly by ethnicity and culture. An Englishman on the Hundred Years' War, for instance, may keep his shield bearing his coat of arms, or his longbow, and would stay near other Englishmen. Thus the cultures descended from these, Faramondians, have a high percentage of traditionally-English heraldic charges, and prize longbows in combat.
In this way the cultural groups formed echo-chambers of style and design. Since the arrival of the Flotilla most cultures have only deviated slightly from designs used on Earth - this is due to the sparse population density of Tairghol and the stagnation of technology until the end of the Great Gap. There have been considerable changes in the last three hundred years, but this is a relatively short period of time.
Category:Concepts