western timepieces

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 15:18:31 +1300


Gary Switzer:

> Peter Metcalfe (in #175) mentions the Westerners using hourglasses
>and waterclocks as timepieces instead of sundials. Couldn't they use
>sorcery to make a much more accurate time-keeping device? Sort of a
>Brithini atomic clock?

The Westerners, by and large, use sorcery to augment their material technology and not use it as a replacement for material things. Thus they use Bless Armour and Boost Damage in Battle but not Conjure Invisible Sword. They can create such things as a sorcerous timekeeper constructed solely from magical energies but it will be made in the form of a hourglass or waterclock IMO.

This would be especially true for the Brithini who are so antiquated that they make the Amish look like post-modernists.

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