Void Tech
The lost technology of the previous age...Before the the Starfall, the empire that ruled the continent thrived off the manipulation of Void magic and technology. The science behind all of their technology is lost to the disaster. However, the main logic of their inventions can be seen throughout: their technology enforced the 'change' attribute of Void magic to do one specific change, every time. Void magic changes whatever it touches, to the point of destroying what was there in the first place. That ancient civilization took that randomness and used technology to make what they wanted to happen instead.
If you look closely, some evidence remains that there was such a thing. My strongest info was a travel journal from one of the tradesmen, dated as the last few years before the Starfall. They mention a few 'rare new goods fresh from those western inventors' that most scholars write off as enchanted tools, or products of alchemy. And what's described is similar, I'll give them that. The description doesn't quite seem right for magic of that sort, its... odd, really. But what the trader mentions off hand about its origin in Void magic...
Void is a forbidden topic nowadays, which means that my findings can't be published. But if those before were experimenting with Void magic, and studying it, like the Academia is with alchemy... Perhaps the folklore denouncing Void magic has its origin in this? What happened with their experiments that almost universally people today despise it...
All the different forms that this took are lost to myth and rumor now, though. Some say that all the cities in that age were lit with infinite stars, day and night. Some say that the lost empires had flying ships that could fly for weeks on end. Most say that their civilization was struck down by Tràyalià for trespassing in the realm of the gods. The truth of the matter is lost to time.
That is indeed a show stopper technology - Nice one minttea!
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Thank you! It definitely stopped someone's show, that's for sure.