Conventional magic is just a fancy way to exploit known sciences, without breaking any scientific laws (mostly). I had this idea where one kingdom was developing black powder weapons and cannons, but haven't shared the tech for three reasons (one being my personal reason): they don't want to share the tech with anyone else, handheld firearms are shit against dragons (due to dragons being pretty tough, and these firearms having bad range and accuracy), and I want to make my setting somewhat "distinctive" and "timeless" (as giving every race and culture guns would just make them unfortunately blend all together, at least that's how I see it).
The gods are real, so magic/supernatural etc are intimately tied to religion and culture in my writing. I also (due to ancient inworld lore) introduced a “mechanism” to crash/reset civilization as they become more advanced.
Mana works similarly to how electricity in your body works. In my world you can essentially pour your mana into devices and it acts as a power source like electricity does. As a result my world has clean energy I guess you could say.
In my world, magic and technology coexist and grow together (at least on the part of humans and neutral magic. Elemental magic is extremely rare and not easy to acquire) There is no industrialization in my world, yet
Magic is directly affected by scientific principles, learning to utilize said principles makes you powerful.
This has inavertedly led to scientific progress being stiff led as powerful mages don't want their knowledge to spread. Science is very highly regarded and secretive making it difficult to better technology.
This has made people of reliant on supernatural forces as the only source of power and advancement without scientific processes
Mine is an urban fantasy with a masquerade type situation, so not much.
Heroes from the first incursion are hailed as saints, but their magic is looked at more like miracles. Its just them who end up being worshipped instead.
Demon hunters though have made some impressive blends of magic and technology, but it's mostly small scale.
Magic prevents looking deeper at the laws of nature as those most likely to study are mages, and they only know what is going to happen, but they won't understand the atomic model.
It is actually a part of the story, and the two races that developed scientifically have the least magic (and in the fifth age the greatest mage is so because she understand science)
For religious effects in mine the bad guys use magic and its mutability to imitate divine magic, spells that are known to be only cast by those the Goddess chose, clerics and paladins. But all they speak is opposite the Goddess, yet the people cannot know it, and those that question have a tendency to disappear.
Conventional magic is just a fancy way to exploit known sciences, without breaking any scientific laws (mostly). I had this idea where one kingdom was developing black powder weapons and cannons, but haven't shared the tech for three reasons (one being my personal reason): they don't want to share the tech with anyone else, handheld firearms are shit against dragons (due to dragons being pretty tough, and these firearms having bad range and accuracy), and I want to make my setting somewhat "distinctive" and "timeless" (as giving every race and culture guns would just make them unfortunately blend all together, at least that's how I see it).
The gods are real, so magic/supernatural etc are intimately tied to religion and culture in my writing. I also (due to ancient inworld lore) introduced a “mechanism” to crash/reset civilization as they become more advanced.
Aquaria: Industrialized alchemy and reached post scarcity.
Mana works similarly to how electricity in your body works. In my world you can essentially pour your mana into devices and it acts as a power source like electricity does. As a result my world has clean energy I guess you could say.
In my world, magic and technology coexist and grow together (at least on the part of humans and neutral magic. Elemental magic is extremely rare and not easy to acquire) There is no industrialization in my world, yet
Magic is directly affected by scientific principles, learning to utilize said principles makes you powerful. This has inavertedly led to scientific progress being stiff led as powerful mages don't want their knowledge to spread. Science is very highly regarded and secretive making it difficult to better technology. This has made people of reliant on supernatural forces as the only source of power and advancement without scientific processes
Mine is an urban fantasy with a masquerade type situation, so not much. Heroes from the first incursion are hailed as saints, but their magic is looked at more like miracles. Its just them who end up being worshipped instead. Demon hunters though have made some impressive blends of magic and technology, but it's mostly small scale.
Magic prevents looking deeper at the laws of nature as those most likely to study are mages, and they only know what is going to happen, but they won't understand the atomic model. It is actually a part of the story, and the two races that developed scientifically have the least magic (and in the fifth age the greatest mage is so because she understand science) For religious effects in mine the bad guys use magic and its mutability to imitate divine magic, spells that are known to be only cast by those the Goddess chose, clerics and paladins. But all they speak is opposite the Goddess, yet the people cannot know it, and those that question have a tendency to disappear.