The closest parallel (in earth’s history) to the technology available to the people of Orizon would be the 16th century (mid-Renaissance era). The mechanical and industrial innovations of the industrial revolution haven’t even been conceived of in this setting. Additionally, a lack of infrastructure and communications tools makes spreading and advancing these technologies difficult at best.

Gunpowder is a common tool for weapons technology and is often used in either simple firearms or simple explosive devices like grenades or powder kegs. However, gunpowder is an inherently dangerous substance, so it is only produced and stored by specific groups and organizations. In addition, firearms have small and intricate mechanisms, and so are only produced by well trained individuals and they are expensive both to own and maintain.

Medical technology keeps about the same level of advancement, but since it’s supplemented with the healing abilities of magic great feats can still be accomplished. The greatest difference from the period is an understanding that cleanliness is connected to health.

The ruins of the ancient world have numerous caches of the technology used by the people of that era, technology that outpaces what those of modern Orizon could accomplish by centuries. Unfortunately much of it has been irreparably damaged or extremely well protected. In addition, the method for their creation or their maintenance depended on a techno-magical infrastructure that the Breaking devastated.

Sometimes people survive expeditions to the ruins and bring back some of this ancient technology, but because of the gaps, attempts to recreate the things recovered have almost all failed, sometimes disastrously.

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