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@hope-ann Yes! The good stuff. I’ve got a trilogy that currently starts towards the more medieval-like time(I mean, it is fantasy after all. And I can’t bear to part with my rangers and horses and swords.) but the story itself starts waaaaaayyy back in the beginning of the ages.(Yes, allegory, I know. When doesn’t allegory start at the beginning of time? Hmm… I’ll have to try playing on that sometime.) Of course, when the people started to actually count the ages. Before then, no one but the wood-sprites really bother to keep record. And even that’s sketchy, knowing sprites.

But since the story starts a long time ago, the technology has changed drastically. (I mean, really. Can you expect the world to be continually stuck in a medieval period? That just doesn’t happen. Sorry, dreamers.) Back when this story originally starts, my villain is the MC. I’ll have to write a prequel about it some day. But the world is barely even beginning to kick off, so naturally there’s not to many people. Good ol’ Mr. Mcvillain decides to try and conquer it with an army of Lucrads(Semi-nomadic ancient tribes of barbaric lizard men with an affinity for spears.). Fortunately, he was stopped and put into 10,000 years of sleep by a wizard who just happened to be one of the original generals for Arathai(working name, and pronounced Ara-ty), a prince at that time who was some sort of ancient social reformer(Yeah. We all know who it is.)

Unfortunately, then he gets woken up from his 10,000 years of sleep 3,000 years too soon, by yet another wizard. This one’s not so nice, though.

So. We get to the point of technology, and what’s really amusing is when your villain is 7,000 year old 20yro man with no idea what a wheel is. But that’s beyond the point. My technology in Firemaster is pretty medieval, yes. But there are improvements. For example, (mostly) working toilets that do not involve dumping human waste into the moat. Yep. Fun one, there. (Who wants to go swimming? Not me.) And some elvish technology in swords and other weapons that allows for things like retractable blades, and etc. Except elves are almost extinct and mostly hated, so no one accredits it to them.

(Plus, elves have that weird energy-binding trick. How are normal humans supposed to use things that have to be altered by elven magic?)

Not to mention the Burgin insight on mining. (Boy, do those guys know how to dig a tunnel. All the cave-dwelling they do must help.) Without that valuable information we’d all still be strip mining and panning for precious al’lafarah and moon-jools. Torls helped a little to, but they’re mostly greedy folk with no interest for humans, so they guard their secrets fiercely.

(I’m ranting on world-building now, in case you haven’t noticed. My entire life lately seems to be one big rant.)

Anyhow. So. Yeah. Lots of technological changes throughout the ages and many different influences. I’m going to tag @devastate-lasting, because I know she likes to mess with technology in novels to. 😉