> 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. Hmm. Maybe the Dragaerian world just doesn't have the natural resources needed to produce high technology. They could be living on Earths moon for all we know. Without things like oil, uranium, etc. It might be very hard to come up with the technology we have now. I don't think they have bats so gunpowerder might be out completly, etc. "I didn't spend all those years playing D&D and not learn a little something about courage." -Some Dork, The X-Files Erik Holmes Shoby187 at yahoo.com AIM: ErikHolmes ICQ: 2593395 MSN: Shoby187 at hotmail.com Y!: Shoby187 at yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/