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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 704991" data-attributes="member: 3271">The Land of the RoseFirst of all, I suppose I should apologize for the psionics crack.  I just saw a reference about Herodotus, Dragon Kings, and crystalline constructions being fallacious and I said to myself "How could we make those come true?"It made perfect sense to me, at least.Now about those Cresians...while I don't know how precisely we've defined their climate, but they might not worry about storing agricultural products in mass quantities.  Particularly if we assume they aren't urbanizing the in the same fashion as we did in the real world, it might be that they just stagger their growth to maturity times in such a fashion that something's always ripe and in season: the apple tree in the front yard will be ripe in about two months: until then, we have grapes, after that, we have pears...or something.  Given their distaste for fire, I imagine they wouldn't be doing much with food preservation other than drying in a mundane sense.So not necessarily a big need for granaries.Also, unless they revere mountains or need to keep an eye on the sky, they're unlikely to build big ziggurat/temple structures.  Even if they do need observation towers, they'll probably just put them in the Cresian equivalent of a redwood tree.  Heck, if someone awakened the tree, it could do the observing for them.Caveat: if they find themselves no longer able to tolerate the changes they make in their environment, look to see them develop something along the lines of an arcology: concentrating themselves in one very unnatural area in order to free the rest of the wilderness from themselves.  But I think that's very far in the future.</blockquote>

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