Origins of Technology(ie. Where Guns Came From)
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In times long past, the minor race now known only as the Temps(homebrew race focused on time manipulation) decided, like most races have done at some point, to greate their own secluded utopian comunity. The entire population of the race's largest city-state agreed to a plan to take the city out of the standard time-stream and into a faster one. A device that combined magic and machinery was created for this purpose, and when everything had been prepared, it was activated. The entire city-state was instantly and violently torn from the normal time-stream. To all who viewed the edge of the affected area, it appeared as if a shimmering blue barrier of electricity and force had encapsulated the city. Time inside the barrier flowed much, much, much faster than the "real world" outside of it. The Temps went through many generations in the course of a few weeks on the outside. Technology advanced at a steady pace inside the city, and many new objects were created. Among these were the firearms. Soon the city began to run low on resources, as the population growth had been far more than had been expected. Several groups were sent out into the "real world", but to the dismay of those inside the city, no help ever came from the outside in(they did not know that the blue-lightning barrier that represented the friction between the two time-streams was destroying all living things that passed through it. In a game sense, it dealt out 20d10 damage to each person passing through it.) Soon a conflict began, and two sides formed. There is no precise record of how it occured, but at some point in the conflict, which was escalating to the level of a civil war, one of the sides damaged the machine that kept the city in its own time-stream. After that, it was only a matter of days before the city returned to the normal time-stream. The warring Temps barely noticed, and carried their conflict on until a truce of some sort was reached. Most of the city itself lay in ruins, and much of the technology had been damaged or destroyed. What did remain was abandoned. Everything the Temps had created was forgotten-except the Firearm. Guns had been the one thing that had taken up the most time inthe last few generations, due to the civil war. The art of Firearm crafting, design, and use was spread by the surviving Temps throughout much of the land. Firearms instantly earned the hate and fear of the Gods. The Technology was centuries-millenia even-from being rightly crafted. The weaponry was an abomination, a relic from a time not-yet-come. Among the divinly righteous peoples, all firearms were considered sacrilige(amazingly almost all religions, even alignment opposed religions, agree on this fact).
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