Legion20
it's just me who keeps asking myself why these recon missions?...magic can destroy mountains and open seas, but a security camera seems impossible!... and considering the complexity of making an artifact magic... why no one thought of inventing analog motion sensor?
It seems to me that these primitive civilizations rely too much on the mysticism of magic. It's all easy when you got 4 elements, light, darkness + combinations. They try to discover how to use the elements, yet no one invented the transistor. Perhaps Menadion was on the path before getting killed, since the book has pointed out multiple times the fact that Menadion's creations contain traces of "software"; yet with all secretiveness, I doubt their information and computer science technologies have advanced past the "and" "or" gates. --- Now, without the power of computers: I challenge you to find a plant that allows you to specifically enchant a "camera", or some other nonsense. Besides, the motion sensor stuff and the like is obviously useless against awakened who can see mana and mess with it. Heck, even non awakened have their ways to hack your arrays. Besides, being so stuck up with exploring mana, like it was pointed out multiple times, the primates of this kingdom didn't even bother to explore the anatomy of the human body, cus light magic fixed it all fast. These people likely have no idea what a photon or an atom is. And not like Lith's an idiot, he's just been too busy improving his mystical part of magic to care and become the first explorer of the more science-oriented branches of magic. You have no idea how much time it takes to program something from scratch, even if awakened ever stumbled on the concept of computers, it was lost in history or left rooting in a lich's notebook in some corner. Unlike magic, science doesn't produce flashy results on the first try.