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Old January 3rd, 2007, 11:24 PM
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Endoperez, magic is present and we have access to it. The Romans attempted quite extensively and earnestly to use magic, but it wasn't working for them nearly as well as, say, concrete. Dom3 however postulates a world in which the forces of the elements, the moon, nature, death, faith, and blood sacrifice are resources as easy to tap as, for instance, pulleys. They are in and of themselves a "sort" of technology that improves with research and application. I'm certain that if you dropped the Greko-Roman empire into a Dominions world, within 50 years they'd be coming up with all manner of new uses for magic, even if they had no power of magic within themselves to begin with. So there's no reason that technology and magic can't be interwoven, and no reason they can't develope along separate lines-magical "scientists" developing spells, performing rituals, coming up with new ideas, and magical "engineers" forging magic items, creating machines and technology, and utilizing ALL the forces and resources around them-not just the so called "magic" ones, but also the ones we use. They'd even be able to tap into things we can't, that you wouldn't necessarily call magic, like the Void. There's room for both, and there's room for faith, as well.
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