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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
I was including crop fertility. When Yrth had food shortages it was either warfare or demons.
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Which brings in the weather wizards as well, for both farming and transport.
My Yrth is low-tech but magically industrialised. Weather wizards powering sail transport, earth wizards managing construction, fire wizards dealing with sanitation, movement and creation mages working in manufacturing, etc. The occasional catastrophic magical accident is just one of the hazards of doing business. A demon makes a mess of your factory, but so does a boiler explosion.
The primary driver keeping the TL low on my Yrth is the mages' unwillingness to tolerate competition. Plus the wide assortment of scrying and mind-reading magic available to the assorted authorities.