I would love to play as choso
no you wouldn’t why are you lying to me
i want to play as chaser deepwoken
so does modern chemistry exist in the ao verse (stuff actually being made of the chemical elements, not the scientific discovery)
nuh uh
scientifically you would rather play as morock
I refuse to get water diffed
You’re so true for that
I mean natural chemical bonds should exist since the AU is just our world but with the Olympians and magic. So atomic structures, periodic trends, and the different types of elements and bonds should exist. However, the knowledge of these things would probably be limited to metal alloys or simple compounds like acids. Basically chemistry should work the same the people just don’t know what it really is.
Edit: please for the love of everything do not turn this into another Morock argument thread.
The Arcane Odyssey fandom trying to make sense of the lore made by the Man of a Thousand Retcons.
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one plot point I simply don’t understand is the idea that magic existing slows down or even halts the progress of science.
like cmon, imagine how much faster electricity would have been discovered if Benjamin Franklin could shoot lightning out of his hands.
Same with Tesla lol.
i didnt know i could make someone mentally handicapped wtf
“if it aint broke dont fix it”
why would you NEED electricity when you could shoot lightning out of your fingertips
Yeah, the way I see it either people somehow got complacent? Even though magic does absolutely nothing utility wise, or they’re too busy killing each other to think about how magic could be used to expand their knowledge of the world. The third option is that the golden age was a time of progress and development and it got destroyed in The Fracturing. However, there’s no evidence for this.
I also headcanon that the larger Sky Islands like Sky Hall, are slightly more advanced. With magically sourced electricity, that I call fulguricity, and things like type-writers. Though that’s due to two Cursebearer OC’s that I have running the Agora. One has the Ink Curse the other the Paper Curse. This is due to the relative peace the Sky Islands experience compared to the sea islands, so they have more time to actually advance.
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I personally headcanon that major historical figures did, in fact, exist in AO. They just weren’t as significant as they were in real life.
Abraham Lincoln was the man who could chop a tree in half with one blow, and wrestle an Atlantean mutant with one arm tied behind his back. Julius Ceaser was an exceptionally tactical mage. Marie Curie revolutionized enchanting. Stuff like that.
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he existed before magic so nah
I know it’s blasphemy to go against the new lore, but I also headcanon that Prometheus giving humanity magic occurred in Greek mythological times. Maybe several hundred years before the fall of Troy.
Nah I just realized the the truth(let not talk about morock for my sanity sake)