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Originally Posted by maximara
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Shape metal+create water+Create Fire can = steam engine (TL5)
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Only once you've invented a steam engine. If you haven't, then combining those elements just gives you a way to make a bomb that requires a wizard who probable knows fireball anyway.
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Copy spell = printing press (TL4)
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A printing press that summons demons! Printer's devils!
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Cure disease = antibiotics (TL6) and antiviral drugs (TL7-8)
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Except no way to mass produce them and thus no great impact on public health.
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And this village has never heard of preventive measures?!
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It doesn't matter whether you've heard of preventative measure if you lack the resources to take them. I should go to the dentist. I'm overdue. I don't have the money to go to the dentist.
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Culturally Yrth has other problems. Christianity is far too consistent given what happened; it should be more like the mess it was in the 2nd century where it fragmented all over the place. Greek Orthodox Christianity is noticeable by its absence
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Why would Greek Orthodoxy exist when no Greek Orthodox communities were ever banestormed?