DE: It's a kind of magic

[bjornwilde]

From electro_kinetic :
So, Milliways is a pretty technologically advanced place if you don't go for the magic explanation. How does your pup try to explain the wonders of The Bar to people who're pre-Industrial Revolution? Conversely, if your pup *is* pre-Industrial Revolution, how do they accept Milliways' 'magic by another name'?

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[not_my_sandbox]

My two pups are strange on the whole magic/technology thing. Gielinor is going through an Enlightenment Age right now. The most advanced weapons tech right now unless you count magic as tech powered by science no one has bothered to understand is the dwarf multicannon which is very steampunky but has some kind of auto-targeting system that is never explained in game. It probably has a magical eye of some sort; the dwarves don't mess with magic much except for superheat ore spells so I don't know where they would get a magical eye spell. An electric eye is doubtful as well as the only people working with on the principles of electromagnetism right now have no affiliation with the dwarves.

Well... no, Oldak the cave goblin might have designed a ElectroMagical eye targeting system for them. The dwarves and cave goblins have some sort of trade agreement.

Wait, no, the dwarves are in the middle of an industrial revolution right now. They have blast furnaces and conveyor belt style pickax factories.

... The division between tech and magic is very blurry, especially in a world where the forces behind magic are considered fundamental forces just like electromagnetism and gravity.

So anyway, Fairy Fixit doesn't see much of a distinction. Plus she comes from Zanaris, a nexus/borderworld much like Milliways only a tad bit more Xen-like, so that complicates things.

Amascut's thoughts on the matter are harder to discern. She has been around long enough to see civilizations fall and grow back up again, so who knows what tech she has seen develop or invade. Transformer-like robots where apparently a thing, though admittedly before her time. As Sarah, she has to play at coming from (mostly) pre-industrial Gielinor, and will treat Bar things as advanced magic/tech that she must learn.