> > > >Speaking of Vallista, I find myself wondering just how inventive > >they are. This ties in to the whole notion of technology on > >Dragaera possibly being limited by the intervention of the gods, > >or by demons, or by the Orb, or by the Jenoine or *something*. > >After 200,000 years, they've just barely invented bows & arrows? > > And if teleportation is only just becoming common (last few hundred years) how about the the steam engine and the train? That's just too useful a technology to supress. Mark Or do we just assume that for plot reasons, or simply because he didn't think of it, SKZB has given us some things that can't be reconciled.