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Pronouns! Either I have to do some contortions with English or I'm going to have to make up a set of pronouns.
I totally didn't think about the tech level enough before I started writing. This had led to several things that I'm going to have to work out.
First, travel technology.
I always figured the world was at a level before the invention of the internal combustion engine. There might be some steam toys but wood is too scarce in my main country to make a wood fired steam engine practical. they also don't have any coal to speak of. There might be some steam tech in the northern mining country though.
So without engines how are they getting around? Well in the northern plateau region, probably on foot or astride animals. The topography would work against the use of wheeled carts. I have them using boats on the river but completely forgot to consider just how those boats are propelled. *d'oh!* I have some being poled but that's not very practical for long distance. I'm going to have to go back and mention sails since with the set up I have that would be the most efficient means most of the time (at least in one direction for half a year at a time.) In the southern plains they have wagons and other animal powered wheeled vehicles.
Other technology issues:
Why the hell did not I not think of the people of the valley doing something productive with that wind tunnel they are living in? I need to figure out what they might do with windmills. Grind grain, pump water to the top of the cliffs (or at least up the cliffs for a bit rather than going from the rim to the river for water all the time!), but what else? And what other technologies might those windmills depend on?
For the northern mountains, I need to work out just what level of technology they have in the mines. They're keeping records and such in an old played out mine so they must trust the way they stabilized it. Just what are they mining up there anyway? What's the refining technology like? I have a blacksmith down in the southern continent so there has to be iron working going on.
And the southern region has popped up with two technologies I need to research, glassblowing because I have a character doing that, and wire production. What level of metal working technology makes drawing wire possible?
I'm really stuck with working out how technologies inter-relate and what technologies I didn't consider might have to be present to make the ones I want/need to have available to my characters.
It's okay if I end up with "lost" technology where people don't know why whatever they do works, just that it does. In fact that would work well with my "plot" (such as it is) but I need to know how it works so I can write it.
If I think of anything else I need to work on I'll add it later.
I totally didn't think about the tech level enough before I started writing. This had led to several things that I'm going to have to work out.
First, travel technology.
I always figured the world was at a level before the invention of the internal combustion engine. There might be some steam toys but wood is too scarce in my main country to make a wood fired steam engine practical. they also don't have any coal to speak of. There might be some steam tech in the northern mining country though.
So without engines how are they getting around? Well in the northern plateau region, probably on foot or astride animals. The topography would work against the use of wheeled carts. I have them using boats on the river but completely forgot to consider just how those boats are propelled. *d'oh!* I have some being poled but that's not very practical for long distance. I'm going to have to go back and mention sails since with the set up I have that would be the most efficient means most of the time (at least in one direction for half a year at a time.) In the southern plains they have wagons and other animal powered wheeled vehicles.
Other technology issues:
Why the hell did not I not think of the people of the valley doing something productive with that wind tunnel they are living in? I need to figure out what they might do with windmills. Grind grain, pump water to the top of the cliffs (or at least up the cliffs for a bit rather than going from the rim to the river for water all the time!), but what else? And what other technologies might those windmills depend on?
For the northern mountains, I need to work out just what level of technology they have in the mines. They're keeping records and such in an old played out mine so they must trust the way they stabilized it. Just what are they mining up there anyway? What's the refining technology like? I have a blacksmith down in the southern continent so there has to be iron working going on.
And the southern region has popped up with two technologies I need to research, glassblowing because I have a character doing that, and wire production. What level of metal working technology makes drawing wire possible?
I'm really stuck with working out how technologies inter-relate and what technologies I didn't consider might have to be present to make the ones I want/need to have available to my characters.
It's okay if I end up with "lost" technology where people don't know why whatever they do works, just that it does. In fact that would work well with my "plot" (such as it is) but I need to know how it works so I can write it.
If I think of anything else I need to work on I'll add it later.
