The Technological Strides of the Civilized World

Technological achievement

As the world began to settle into a tenuous state of fragile balance, the advent of technology quickly filled the gaps left behind by the passing of the old world. Wonders and marvels began to fly, often literally, from the workshops and industrial centers of the Bechtlarite and Culvarkt empires, filtering down through every walk of life and into nearly every other nation on the planet.

While some degree of technology had always been available in the realms of Cairne, even before the Blight, the era of invention that followed it was a renaissance of redefined purpose and innovation, set about to fulfill the needs both dire and trivial that were left in the wake of the cataclysm. Faster and more powerful steam engines, firearms that could shoot further and with deadly accuracy, antibiotics to fight disease, new sterilization techniques, methods that allowed longer food preservation and faster and more efficient cultivation. Nearly all of these changes came from the engineers, scientists, and inventors of The Sovereign Empire of the Bechtlarites and the Culvarkt Council of Houses ,both engaged in a friendly competitive race to outdo the other, to the benefit of the rest of the world and to the credit of the individuals that seemed to be able to consistently create better and better tools and methods of doing just about anything. The modernization of the two empire was so rapid and so quickly integrated that many commoners found it difficult to keep up with the changes that were rebuilding the world around them.   Quality of life was on the rise, but behind it all, always loomed the darker needs for it. The Blight remained, as did the threat and dangers it posed, and while these new technologies worked amazing well to defend against it, neither empire was any closer to stopping or reversing the process that was slowly devouring the planet. The horrors from within continued to encroach upon the territories that bordered the Void, and in harder to reach locations, even with Benevolent intervention, sickness and disquiet remained.