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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Your Current Affairs appear to be totally mundane and generally full of nothing but the sort of things that makes some people find Medieval history tedious. The Path/Book flag would usually draw persons interested in magic rather than medieval politics.
Add magic.
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I kept trying to come up with something and drawing a blank, outside of a vague thought about a vague threat lurking... somewhere vague, which is really not useful.
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Originally Posted by johndallman
Surely you mean movable type and a printing press?
Anything that casts whole lines of type with any degree of reliability would be a post-industrial-revolution device, simply for the number of moving parts involved.
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I know. It was intentionally bizarre, to create a mystery for outtimers to wonder about/solve (like, the most plausible reason for that to exist is that William of Mons encountered an outtimer, and it's far enough back that if he did, said outtimer predates Van Zandt; a possible but less likely answer is that William or a friend got an incredibly detailed but very limited vision of the future; a twelfth century clockmaker inventing a linotype machine without outside help is really far out).