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This week, I started back up on my other book, The Last Guardian. There's something that is puzzling to me about the main story across the entire series: how have fairies, gnomes, and other mythical creatures managed to keep their existence a secret by living underground for the past 10,000 years, and how are they so much more technologically advanced than us?
Alright. I would buy if they had some invisible base in the middle of space between the Earth and the Moon, or if their habitat was, say, the Bermuda Triangle, but... underground? I just feel like that's the most overused of the hiding places for secret organizations, let alone magical beings. And as for being technologically advanced? Well... they can use magic, I guess they could create new elements, and then, being underground, use the energy from the planet to superheat them to create, like, SUPER elements, or something like that. So, I guess, if they had 10,000 years to do all this, they could be pretty far ahead of us. But, that's only if they weren't found by curious human entrepreneurs spelunking in their free time. I don't know... I guess I could believe the whole "way more tech savvy fairies" part, but not the "mystical beings have been living underneath us for several millennia" part.
I actually began reading this series late 6th grade when I had nothing else to read, but I never actually finished it. You do bring up a good point with them being underground for quite a long time without noticing, I never really thought about it like that. I may pick this series back up if I get a chance.
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