The book is a heavy volume, written in a rather elegant prose standard for the era's scientific textbooks. It is almost entirely dedicated to the links between magic and technology, how they intersperse and overlap and how long it's taken Konryu to find a blend that's harmonious with one another. It details the history – that they went through a period where magic was considered an 'unclean' science and practitioners were executed – until one of the most popular scientific names of the day, Averastis, was able to prove that when properly applied the two elements have a synergy greater than the sum of their parts.
The opinion of magic did not change overnight, nor did the bias retreat. It was a long, slow process to gain public acceptance, helped largely by Averastis' plan to raise cities into the sky with it. You see, much of the land was already covered in high-rise buildings, and he took the 'nowhere to go but up' adage literally. The concept of having floating cities took nearly three hundred years from conception to execution, and Averastis was on his deathbed when they broke a champagne bottle against the hull of Teyran itself. He stubbornly lived long enough for the first families to get settled there, and died peacefully thereafter.
The book goes on to explain the energies and how they interact with numerous scientific formulae, how Life magic works best with biomechanics, Dreaming magic works best with something called 'Etherealtech', which it explains as being something that exists in a solid state only in Dreaming, but that can be used in Life as a source of many things, including light and power. There is no mention of Death's correlation to technology.
Science: Fact or Fiction?
This book was written anonymously by a rather eccentric person, and its publication date is only shortly before the decline of Teyran. It is a supremely boring look at physics, that drags out for far longer than it should and rambles itself quite frequently in circles.
apologies for the lateness
Understanding Our World, by Jakis Mirei.
The book is a heavy volume, written in a rather elegant prose standard for the era's scientific textbooks. It is almost entirely dedicated to the links between magic and technology, how they intersperse and overlap and how long it's taken Konryu to find a blend that's harmonious with one another. It details the history – that they went through a period where magic was considered an 'unclean' science and practitioners were executed – until one of the most popular scientific names of the day, Averastis, was able to prove that when properly applied the two elements have a synergy greater than the sum of their parts.
The opinion of magic did not change overnight, nor did the bias retreat. It was a long, slow process to gain public acceptance, helped largely by Averastis' plan to raise cities into the sky with it. You see, much of the land was already covered in high-rise buildings, and he took the 'nowhere to go but up' adage literally. The concept of having floating cities took nearly three hundred years from conception to execution, and Averastis was on his deathbed when they broke a champagne bottle against the hull of Teyran itself. He stubbornly lived long enough for the first families to get settled there, and died peacefully thereafter.
The book goes on to explain the energies and how they interact with numerous scientific formulae, how Life magic works best with biomechanics, Dreaming magic works best with something called 'Etherealtech', which it explains as being something that exists in a solid state only in Dreaming, but that can be used in Life as a source of many things, including light and power. There is no mention of Death's correlation to technology.
Science: Fact or Fiction?
This book was written anonymously by a rather eccentric person, and its publication date is only shortly before the decline of Teyran. It is a supremely boring look at physics, that drags out for far longer than it should and rambles itself quite frequently in circles.