Remembering our Past, Defining our Present, by KTD.
This book details the history of Konryu, each of the countries and city-states. It's a rather anthropological look at everything, it discusses people, rites, customs, their relationships with one another and how the different areas tend to interact across different times and places. It ventures into the modern age as well, and here it begins to discuss wars and the reasons they occur. It seems that prior to roughly three thousand years ago, there was little in the way of conflict – most races in Konryu exercised peaceful traderights – and that there was a sudden catalyst, only speculated at in the novel as to why they began with such suddenness.
Of course, with war comes progress, and many advancements were made due to this change. Science, politics, language, all became more advanced in the blink of an eye (historically speaking) and spaceflight became a viable option, with the whole of Konryu having a sort of 'space race' of its very own. The book touches briefly on a rumour unaddressed elsewhere, that being that an entire shuttle of men and women – all of them scientists or soldiers, all of them brilliant – completely disappeared. The shuttle was found sixty years after the fact, with some signs of non-critical damage but no lifeshuttles, drifting in space.
Defining Chemistry by Poyad Kethdias
This is a book, perhaps written for teenagers, that has plenty of pictures to describe the various processes of chemistry. It's a fun, light read and it's terrifically informative on the subject. It discusses how magic can affect chemistry, and how you can get different reactions from the same chemical compounds if the same tests are done in both Life and Dreaming. For example, a baking soda volcano would produce the desired effects in Life, but in Dreaming it may make everyone float instead.
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Remembering our Past, Defining our Present, by KTD.
This book details the history of Konryu, each of the countries and city-states. It's a rather anthropological look at everything, it discusses people, rites, customs, their relationships with one another and how the different areas tend to interact across different times and places. It ventures into the modern age as well, and here it begins to discuss wars and the reasons they occur. It seems that prior to roughly three thousand years ago, there was little in the way of conflict – most races in Konryu exercised peaceful traderights – and that there was a sudden catalyst, only speculated at in the novel as to why they began with such suddenness.
Of course, with war comes progress, and many advancements were made due to this change. Science, politics, language, all became more advanced in the blink of an eye (historically speaking) and spaceflight became a viable option, with the whole of Konryu having a sort of 'space race' of its very own. The book touches briefly on a rumour unaddressed elsewhere, that being that an entire shuttle of men and women – all of them scientists or soldiers, all of them brilliant – completely disappeared. The shuttle was found sixty years after the fact, with some signs of non-critical damage but no lifeshuttles, drifting in space.
Defining Chemistry by Poyad Kethdias
This is a book, perhaps written for teenagers, that has plenty of pictures to describe the various processes of chemistry. It's a fun, light read and it's terrifically informative on the subject. It discusses how magic can affect chemistry, and how you can get different reactions from the same chemical compounds if the same tests are done in both Life and Dreaming. For example, a baking soda volcano would produce the desired effects in Life, but in Dreaming it may make everyone float instead.