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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meds" data-source="post: 426231" data-attributes="member: 3402">Yeah, very smart stuff.  I think you're right on both counts.This is all very subjective, but for what it's worth:'Primitive': pre-fire.  This power could play a similar role to fire.  Wielders are revered leaders/shamans.'Primitive': post-fire.  Assuming it is abundant enough to enhance crop-growing, this power tips the balance towards agrarian, and away from hunter-gatherer lifestyles (in the few places where the geography/fauna/flora can support farming).  Probably accelerates the adoption of agriculture by a few thousand years. Ancient: Farms can support higher population densities leading to quicker development of governments, trading, technology in general, and epidemics.Renaissance: development of focussing lenses and mirrors means this can now be turned into weapons (assuming this is allowed).  Siege warfare is revolutionized.  Castles, metal armour die out.  Invention of gunpowder-based firearms possibly delayed but probably still eventually replace sunlight-based weapons in short order.Industrial Revolution: development of the steam engine, means we have an unlimited supply of free energy.  Coal, oil and gas industries do not develop.  Rapid adoption of this power leads to exponential increase in energy produced on Earth.  Global temperatures rise dramtically.  Ice caps melt.  Maladaptive species (like humans) die out.1960s: Surviving cockroaches finally evolve opposable thumbs.  Build the finest illict hydroponics dens in history.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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