@TheEdVerse Random realmslore question:
Would inhabitants of Lantan be more likely to have daVinci-esque inventions serving on them, or magical analogs (floating discs, unseen servants)?Does the existence of magical/mechanical devices remove/reduce the 'lower class'?
— Bryan Holmes 💙❤️🖤 (@FallenWyvern) January 30, 2020
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Mechanical far more than magical (though priests of Gond do use magic for propulsion and for the same rustproofing of metal that gets applied to swords elsewhere in the Realms). And yes, these mechanical devices are2)
…widespread in use, and do reduce the numbers of lower classes and disparagement of them. Lantanna society has farmers and those with no aptitude for working with their hands (sometimes derisively called “the halfwits and the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2020
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…dreamers”) at the bottom, workers who mine and smelt and hew a rung above, apprentices to skilled trades above them, skilled repairers and smiths above their apprentices, those who can fabricate what is new (metallurgists who 4)
…can make new alloys, build prototypes and make molds) above that, brilliant inventors of the new higher still (“Inspired of Gond”), and the priests of Gond on top. But Lantan has less class friction and more ‘common feeling’…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2020
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…than many places; anyone willing to work isn’t despised, and everyone’s usefulness is respected (after all, farmers grow food and the starving are too weak to smelt or forge or invent).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2020
