A thought occured to me just recently and I thought I'd ask other people's opinions as well.

How much does the average Joe (or whatever is the most common name in those parts...) know about the history of the world? Obviously the other races are pretty much out of the question, as well as everything else related to the supernatural, but what exactly IS known about the history of the human world? Is the battle against Rah in it, for example? Of course a newly introduced character may have a very wide knowledge of events in the past, but I was just wondering what do they teach the kids in history classes over there?

Perhaps under the form of legends. I'd imagine even the most eminent scholars know next to nothing on the war with Rah, only that there was a large-scale conflict that Zhorne Giovanni overcame and then founded the Empire. The only ones likely to know more are the secret societies.

I'd also doubt that there would be such a thing as a history class - only upper-class people are likely to have an academic education, and then only in the form of self-study and private tutors.