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Lorstar Modernization 

Basic Info:

Although the world of Lorstar is filled with fantasy elements, it has impressive modernization. Currently, it is similar to that of Earth's modernization in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 

Radios, TVs, music players, refrigerators, stoves, and nearly all other forms of modern technology can be found in average Lorstar homes in all locations.

Of course, technology is designed very differently in Lorstar. Also, it is called machnology. It is called that because instead of tech, it is crafted and designed with magic. 

Building mach devices of Lorstar takes about the same amount of skill as creating tech on Earth. It requires skill with magic and similar resources needed to create tech on Earth. Metal is the most prime example. Crystals are also needed to store and manipulate the magic spells used for the item. 

Despite the use of magic, the developing of each item is quite similar to construction used for said item on Earth. Still, it has certain differences that are very difficult to explain. 

One big difference, however, is that mach is not powered by electricity like tech. Instead, it is powered by air, water, and any lifegiving substance surrounding it, much like how magic is empowered. Meaning, there is no need for batteries or outlets for mach. A major difference from Earth tech.

Different places tend to have different designed appliances and mach. A big example is the underwater lands. Also, the quality of the mach differs between places based on location and ways of life. For example, Rown has slightly less advanced machnology because of the citizens' attachment to nature and slightly lighter desire for such means of entertainment. Appliances for them are pretty much the same, though. 

There are no automobiles or airplanes in Lorstar. Society has no need or desire to enhance abilities of transportation. There are boats, however, and that is the most ideal way to travel across the sea. 

Another difference of tech and mach is that mach improves and evolves slightly slower. It takes stronger spells, greater skills, and more ideas for improvement to evolve. Though that sounds similar to how tech evolves, since mach is powered and designed with magic, it can potentially be far more complex and need much more physical and mental capabilities to improve. Overall mach evolves at a rate from 1910s to 2000s tech in approximately 150 years. 

Lorstar has yet to develop computers, but the mach is close to becoming capable of producing them. Some things, like animated cartoons, have been produced through other means such as manipulating figures, elemental effects, illusions, and enchanted artwork. 

Various examples of Mach

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Appliances:

Appliances are also a common part of Lorstar modernization. Like mach, appliances are powered by magic. In the case of indoor plumbing, water crystals and magic is used to recycle and clean produced water and eradicate water too contaminated to cleanse. In some ways it is more complicated than Earth plumbing, and in some ways simpler. 

However, like Earth plumbing, a source of water is needed for Lorstar plumbing to function. It is important to keep all connected sources clean and free of contamination. 

Appliances such a refrigerators, stoves, ovens, and microwaves use special elemental crystals to function much like Earth versions. Buttons and dials can manipulate the appliances much like ours.  

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A common Lorstar home bathroom

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Common Lorstar kitchen appliances

Overall, Lorstar's modernization is different and not as advanced as our world, but much more advanced than most other worlds of fantasy. 

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