>>5971317Your colonists move eastward and stop at the Iaakan border. It’s is a peaceful empty land.
We adopt the southern technology on gunsmithing. With coal, steel and sulphut guns are made. And the army is trained with them the nation enters a new era.
>>5973021Copper and Marble is found. Copper can be used to make tools with good magic synergy and ones that rust slower in water. Marble on the other hand is just a pretty rock for construction.
Paper made from kelp is certainly a useful idea. Squid ink and kelp help produce writing that can be stored and remains stable even under water. Your nation claims the kelp forests in the west, but your hold is uncertain.
>>5973066The lands in the south conquered. Those foolish cat people have been easily defeated and driven out. Supreme vampiric victory. Gladiatorial matches shall reenact our grand victory for eternity!
More smithies are erected and the quality of your blacksmithing work improves. Sharp swords and sickles are forged for WAR.
A grand golden monument is built to commemorate out eternal victory and superiority over the catpeople. Forged from their own gold they shall look upon it eternally with shame.
>>5974427>>5974428Sneaking around the academy ruins you find the secrets to their golemancy. It is true golemancy, true golems fueled by magic and coded for a purpose, you also find out about lessening the magical load of golemancy using cogs and gears… not something you could make with your paws, but you find who can. To the south the Declana a stout inventor people once close allies to the academy they surely miss the collaboration on grand golems.
(you obtain golemancy magic and the ability to create small golems)
Finally an army. Skeletons are rised within the nation and are ready to use whenever… and for now. We can just hide them a few feet underground.
The emperor is no god, but merely a dried out corpse hidden behind some silken rhobes paraded around by generations upon generations of officials… well well well if this is not something our necromancer could make us of if they lay their paws on it.