>>6151840Medicine is in an odd place; there is a rudimentary understanding of germ theory, though they are understood through the lens of 'humors'. There is a history of purges as medicine in the setting, but because it performed so poorly when compared to contemporaneous, openly available Mysterious interventions, it is regarded to be little better than drinking blood from healthy hosts - even now that Mysterious interventions are no longer openly available.
In the setting, industrial technology and development - elevated by Mysterious intervention - is much further along than other fields. It is what advanced the furthest, and regressed the least after the Estrangement, 200+ years ago. That is why the Mount is a very late medieval/early renaissance city with massive factories. While it is true that very few of the machines that drive the Empire's industry have Mysterious components or require constant Mysterious intervention, as the towers of Gothorum-One did ... most of them were <span class="mu-i">built</span> with Mysterious intervention, by a branch of the Inquisition responsible for the maintenance, research - and most controversially, the development and deployment of Mysterious infrastructure.
Chlotsuintha knows next to nothing about them - and all of this besides - so I cannot go further into this until she learns more, or a book on the topic is chosen for the opener.
I don't know when I will open the next thread, but I expect it to be in the next few days. I hope to see you all then!
