Roderick postulates that the Sartarites expends lots of Earth Magic to maintain their roads.
I know that Glorantha is highly magical, yada yada, but there must be limits and opportunity costs. If you are spending lots of MP maintaining a road, you have less MP to fight off Malia, make the apple trees grow, stop those cold winter winds, etc.
So, partly out of personal preference for simplicity, partly due due these tradeoffs, I'm leery of just saying "it's magical" to enhance relatively mundane, uncritical things.
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