Or rather, where's the development of Easterner society? The recorded history of mankind on Terra is 7000 - 8000 years. In that time, we've managed to grow from primitive cave men to industrialized, high-tech people. (Admittedly, some parts of the world are still basically primitive cavemen, though those last bastions of the Primitive are dwindling.) Meanwhile, Easterners have existed in a land of their own for almost 30 times that long, yet they still live a lifestyle that we would probably think of as mideaval and that your average Dragaeran considers barbaric. No Dragaeran Emperor has ever conquered the East. Blackchapel is at the furthest edge of the Empire's penetration, yet it's only a few days/weeks >from the Empire itself. Fenario and countless other Eastern lands lie in places where the Empire is a rumor and a legend. Wars with the Empire can't really account for the stagnation that the East appears to be subject to. (In fact, if history is a guide, war tends to drive technological innovation rather than stifle it.) So, why has the East remained in this state some 3000 generations of men after the founding of the Empire? The Empire is only 66 generations old and sorcery IS their technology so we can see that they are, in fact, developing at a rapid pace all things considered. The East, by contrast, appears to almost be frozen in time when they ought to be making the same sorts of strides in philosphy, science and technology that our own ancestors were able to make. The moreso because someone, somewhere ought to have preserved some relics of the original Terran settlers. Are the Gods deliberately keeping the Easterners in check in order to realize their anti-Jenoine agenda? Granted that the Cool Stuff theory is at work here but even that ought to have an in-character explanation.