EVENT | LANDFALL | VALISHAERA

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL!
Date: JULY 13-26
Location: Valishaera
Situation: Tu Vishan has made landfall on Siaxhi, to explore the Dreaming Watch City of Valishaera.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

As Tu Vishan draws near, the heavy jungle visible even from miles out quickly identifies the landmass as Siaxhi, one of the westernmost continents in Konryu and one that has been largely untouched insofar as the kedan themselves have gone. There is a natural inlet along the southeast shore on the continent and Tu Vishan makes for that, though he fills nearly all of it.



OOC INFORMATION
Landfall Questions | Approved Item Requests | Pocket Dreaming Signups

CITY OF VALISHAERA
Exploring the Coast | The Arybar | A Ruined City

WITHIN THE TEMPLE
The Monks' Domain | The Labs & Library | Gathering Rooms & Garden | The Pocket Dreaming Realms

LANDFALL MISSIONS
Dreamscape | Night's Wood | Inan | OOC Organization

Comments

[gathersnomoss]

Exactly. Where I come from, unless you count a few complicated spells, the printing press and a fast horse is the height of communication technology.

[unetrustworthy]

[Her ears perked a little at the word "spells". More magic, then.]

How can you have something like magic, and yet no technology?

[gathersnomoss]

I wasn't aware the printing press was set down by the gods and not 'technology'.

[Because Zel is a bit sensitive in equating technology with 'all the tools you haven't developed']

But, think about it. Mages capable of casting flare arrow are common. Magic works in rain and doesn't go off accidentally, and doesn't require any preparation. Even if scholars note that gunpowder exists, most nations would rather pay sorcerers to improve fire magic than natural philosophers or alchemists or whatever to improve gunpowder.

We have gunpowder, by the way, but it was developed in a part of the world where magic wasn't as common. But, again, look at the printing press; it exists because no one's figured out a quick way to print things with magic. Dye spells exist, but they aren't as precise as a printer.

[unetrustworthy]

[Not understanding completely how the two worked, Midii simply equated one evolutionary idea with another. People who were smart enough to lean the kinds of incredible things that magic could do...why couldn't they figure out others as well?]

But they exists together here. We have those computer consoles and other pieces of technology, but there's also magic.

[gathersnomoss]

Maybe mages were less common, either now or in the past. Now that my part of the world has gunpowder, people use it because it does have some advantages over mages.

[unetrustworthy]

Only some?

[gathersnomoss]

It needs to be kept dry, and it takes a bit more preparation. I know the pistols here are more developed, and can hold multiple charges.

[unetrustworthy]

...I wouldn't know anything about that, really.

[The guns here, specifically. Not necessarily guns in general.]

[gathersnomoss]

Oh. Yeah, I suppose that's a good thing.

[unetrustworthy]

Anyway...I should get back to reading. Before I end up accidentally forgetting anything here too.

[gathersnomoss]

Right. Me as well.