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Old 08-09-2017, 12:37 AM   #219
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Default Re: Yrth technology

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
Magical printers could not have been making loads of money making it the job of the bottom rungs.
In twelfth century England, a single book cost around the same as a warhorse. More than a labourer's annual wage.

And printing did not come through alone; other technologies came with it. Enough, IMO, to plausibly motivate a mage somewhere to run a Divination on "what's going to happen to us if we keep allowing this technology to develop?".

And, as mentioned, dragons. Who are well-motivated to take a long term view.

Yeah, you could poke holes in it if you try. But it's close enough to work for me without shattering WSoD.
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