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WOW HEY long time coming on this art trade with kingrebecca !

dude i actually made a pic better than what i originally visioned

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Worldbuilding Advent Calendar: Dec 21st

Magic blueprints are a marvel of modern manufacturing technology and arcane science.  Despite their common name, magic blueprints are not building plans, but miniature factories on a scroll, capable of turning building materials into all kinds of items and devices, from furniture to boats to one-person ornithopters.  However, this usually necessitates the actual construction of the item to be inscribed in the first place and a highly-trained wizard to create the actual blueprint itself using the item as a template.  Once created, the blueprints can then be used to make near-exact copies of the item so long as sufficient building materials are on hand.

Using magic blueprints is not as simple as laying them atop raw materials, however.  The building materials need to be in a refined form, so a blueprint for a table needs wooden boards and nails, not a few lumps of iron and a felled tree, though the blueprint doesn’t need the nails or boards to be precisely the right size or shape, allowing artisans to reuse of some of the leftover scrap wood from a lumber mill or a set of oddly-shaped nails.  In addition, through some quirk of the creation of the magic blueprints, the artisan using the blueprint will have to carefully align illusory shapes that appear when the blueprints are activated, not unlike a tangram puzzle.  More complex devices will involve correspondingly difficult tangrams, including three-dimensional ones for especially large ones.  Furthermore, the puzzles change slightly with each use, requiring the user of a blueprint to possess a keen mind.  This in turn makes magic blueprints both a device that anyone can use and one that not everyone is good at.  Workshops that make extensive use of magic blueprints often hire temporary workers on a per-item basis, making them popular places for serons looking to make some quick coin if they have the mind and mental fortitude for it.  Those who are exceptionally good with shapes and puzzles can make good pay for consistent work.

It’s not known who first created magic blueprints.  Many assume House Gaoith first created them as they are one of the primary manufacturers and exporters of them, a notion that most Gaoithi are not quick to disabuse outsiders of.  More likely, however, are that magic blueprints are a device of ancient Ganean origin, which House Gaoith either rediscovered or, at the very least, figured out how to produce on a large scale.  Other arcane scholars theorize that Balzars were actually the first to create them, a prospect that would leave many feeling a tad uneasy.  Given that magic blueprints have a low likelihood of exploding without warning, however, this theory seems unlikely, but their quirk of requiring artisans to solve puzzles every time they use them gives the idea some credence.

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La coena libera era un lauto pasto che veniva offerto agli atleti prima dei giochi, nella Sala…

La coena libera era un lauto pasto che veniva offerto agli atleti prima dei giochi, nella Sala d’Armi del Ludus Gladiatorius.

Immensa e rettangolare, la sala era immersa in un’atmosfera triviale; grida, risate, bestemmie e parole oscene.

Il materiale da costruzione all’interno della sala, dalla pavimentazione alle tavole, dalle panche ai pannelli alle pareti, era vecchio legname ricavato da…

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