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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5856360" data-attributes="member: 1861">Don't think DaVinci.  DaVinci was one man who had 40 years to work up to it, and he didn't have the available materials that these individuals seem to have.  What is the actual makeup of the area ecologically?  DaVinci worked with what he had because he was just not able to really dig into it.  And they have the ability to really go into depth with their experiments.  The DaVinci models are really just silly to matter to a normal society, and were drawn up for a little noble who wanted a fancy thinker in his court.So they have the ability to create items and overcome their natural resistance.  Light sources with Continual Flame line the locales, they bring in various useful items (Decanters of Endless Water, heatstones, etc.).  They have developed parabolic furnaces for their use in smithing to turn this extremely hard, obdurate material into alloys with their iron to produce strong, pliant, and magical-resistant arms and armor.  They focus the power of the stones through channeling and optics to create the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace" target="_blank">Dragon's Gate</a>, a powerful furnace that removes impurities in the metals they work, creating a level of masterwork steel used for royalty. They experiment with various materials, becoming the experts.  They have begun their works in viticulture, animal husbandry, etc.  They may be a source of Mageborn animals... All kinds of different things but I would need more information on the ecology and available materials.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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