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Originally Posted by evileeyore
Though.... it does occur to me that with geothermal vents... and magic (or just magic) it might be possible for underwater magic civs to have some measure of fire based tech.
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Only if you can actually approach the undersea vents closely enough to take advantage of the heat, and not cook yourself. You're in a medium that conducts heat a lot better than air, and has a much density and specific heat also. And it isn't as if you could go to the vent, shove a piece of material into it, and have a continuing small vent that you could carry around. The portability of fire is one of its big understated advantages.