Gunsmithing is expensive they’re all too busy failing at controlling crime and fighting over cubes
Alright so, yes, technically within the year ao takes place we should have access to more advanced guns then we currently have
But that would be ignoring the fact that alot of technology initially started out as too expensive for general use. For example, flintlock guns took a long time to be used practically in wars due to the complexity of their design, requiring experts to create and maintain them which isn’t cheap. Now I couldn’t find anything online on how long it took for lever action rifles to be adopted by many but it’s safe to assume we can apply the same logic to them.
Of course that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be added to the game, rather it’d make more sense to have them as really rare weapons, either from a sunken/lost set or perchance as a boss drop
Yes, technology develops differently in a world where you can shoot balls of metal at somebody with just your hands and a circle
Also I believe AD starts at a slightly different time.
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i have just noticed that december 14th is my birthday too.
What who’s birthday is that
mine
No who else were u referring to
no just pointing out the “too” part because the latest arcane odyssey quest storyline is also taking place in december 14th
I personally headcanon, that due to their paranoia without actual danger to themselves, that the major sky islands may be closer in technology to the relative date listed (edit: 1850s). This obviously has problems i.e. materials, cost, and initiative. However, I read Mistborn Era 2 and like the aesthetics of magic cowboys. Though, they could have trade routes with the sea islands, with things like sky fruit and other magical flora. I think overall if they establish a trade route that the sky islands would be the most likely to industrialize. Either them or Keraxe (given that they’re a fairly stable empire that looks to crush others, they’d be very interested in any new war time tech.)
Edit 2: Also industrialization would actually much more practical and option in the AU as while magic is useful for war, it lacks in actually providing utility or substance for a nation.
which is exactly what magic development could have provided through arcanium tools, or simply the usage of mages to simplify specific tasks (e.g. blowing a smithy’s fire, using wind or water magic to move a mill, temporary creation of temporary tools like cups, icecubes, etc.).
Magic could have been used in so many ways -almost all of which allows for resources to be allocated to something else-, yet somehow, none of them were thought of.
magic requires magic ability to use, guns can be used by literally any bloke off the street
So while I admire the concept the way ME (magic energy (edit: removed snarky comment about mana)) is presented in verse edit: would make this impossible. ME acts more of like a simulation of an element’s most basic properties like water being a liquid and occasionally blue. However if you were to use water magic for growing crops, nothing would happen as the ME carries none of the chemical composition necessary for water to be actually useful.
So even something like an arcanium watering can to be used with water magic wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t be water. The exception to this is of course Curses. This is probably one of my biggest problems with the AU and its magic system, that being magic is only useful for destruction not utility.
However, if you enter the realm of insane extrapoitative speculation … Given that ME is in fact a type of energy that with certain magics is able to be turned into physical matter (magma, water, metal ect.) then we know that E=mC^2 is in effect. So, if you managed to reverse this turn physical matter into ME you may be able to replicate a Curse’s unique ability to create true matter out of magical energy. This may work because conservation of mass so whatever the mass becomes would have the relative energy of that mass. For example a large trail of ground could be transformed into actual water using water magic energy as the catalyst for this transmutation.
Tl;Dr: transmutation may be possible by reversing the magic energy into matter formula, I hope any of this makes sense.
Ok but I still can drink in a temporary wood-like magic cup, I still can heat things up with a temporary fire-like magic, I can still exerce physical force with physical-like magic.
As for theoretical arcanium tools, engineered explosion magic could be used to replace gunpowder and the aforementioned jobs that mages could perform could be automated.
With magic, technological advancements should have either specialised in its widespread usage or have at minimum heavily slown down the progress of science.