[Magic] Development of Spell-based Magic through TL0

[Willy]

I hope this helps. In technomancer the number of words for a single spell is around 20.000 Words for mental hard spells, mental very hard have more.

If you plan to work without writing, and literacy appears long time later, you need your mages at least memorize large parts of there grimoire. You can do this without eidetic memory, but it will take a long time to learn. The celtic druids had a learning time of 20 years before the were considered finished. Of course high levels of magery shorten the necessary time span a lot.

Also in earlier time many sages and bards had learned learning techniques to memorize there songs, storys etc. Some of the greatest storys in history have been a long time only existed from mouth to mouth like the illias.

As for tade routes, even in the neolithic europe had some good researched routes all over the continent. Tin, salt and luxury goods travelled far, even before that firestone and other stones good for making tools and weapons were traded. Some raw unworked stones were transported over several 100km, in part british stones appeared in south europe.