User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-575012-20121009212211/@comment-575012-20121009225239

@Lord Loss: Eeep, is that so? Sorry for pointing out the obvious, then. =/

@Anon: I really mean no offense by this, but you should read a little bit more. Pretty much any fantastic world is like that. There's no point in dwelling on this, as most writers/creators don't even take that into consideration when developing fantasy worlds, and I'm pretty sure that is the case here. Except when explicitly told so by the author, you can't really infer whether something is or isn't a world alternate to ours, a planet long removed from Earth or simply a planet in a parallel dimension. A few examples:


 * Star Wars: From the very beginning, we get informed that the Star Wars universe is the same as ours, just removed in both time and space ("A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away").


 * Lord of the Rings: It isn't immediately obvious, and you certainly can't infer it from the story itself, but Tolkien's Middle Earth is supposed to be our own Earth in the long past.


 * Star Trek: Star Trek's universe is obviously supposed to be our own future.


 * Harry Potter: Harry's world is supposedly our own world: we just can't see all that witchcraft.


 * Narnia: AFAIK, it isn't explicit, but Narnia apparently has dimensions parallel from our own, though the kids' home world is our own.

However, we have no information regarding the status of worlds such as Final Fantasies' (we know they are in the same universe among themselves, but we don't know how do they relate to Earth. And I'm explicitly ignoring Spirits Within here =P), Dragon Quests' (same as above), The Elder Scrolls' (we know of several parallel dimensions to Nirn, the mortal world, such as Oblivion, but Earth doesn't fit into that cosmology) and Kingdom Hearts'. And those are worlds much more developed than MH's, and certainly more thought out.

Really, just don't dwell on it :)