Chronicles of Nations - Civ Quest

[X] Gain random nautical technology advancement. (-1 Temp Diplo, -1 Temp Econ, -1 Temp Mystic)

The last generation had been one of change for the Arthwyd. A good one by account of pretty much anyone asked, but regardless of how beneficial they are, the changes are great and numerous.

And a generation of change like that doesn't come without a price. The People or at least the Arthwyd had been enjoying an era of peace, brought about by the new calm that the end of the fighting had brought their people.

Stability, peace and knowing where the future lay had given the Arthwyd an era of plenty and prosperity.

But all good things come to an end and while discoveries of Seryn the Wise were ultimately good for the People, they gave the Arthwyd a good many seasons of uncertainty and unease as the new innovations were integrated into the Arthwyd's way of life.

Since the fighting had a hundred winters ago, the Arthwyd had become accustomed to knowing their life in life and what the future would hold for them and their children. And now that certainty had been taken from them by Seryn and her discoveries even if the she had never intended to do such a thing.

Once that certainty of what the future held had been lost, it wasn't something easily regained. The Arthwyd still had peace and prosperity, but whatever good feeling had previous permeated their community had gone and it would take time to get back if they got it back at all.

Golden Age Ended!
The discoveries of Seryn the Wise and their implementations have caused enough disruption and uncertainty amongst the Arthwyd to bring about the end of the Golden Age.

Yet for all the disruption and uncertainty that they called, the discoveries that Seryn uncovered in the last several seasons of her life were undoubtable good for the People.

While she revealed them all to the People during the final stages of her life, many suspected that she had been working on them for much longer and had decided to reveal them when she did because the woman had realised that the end of her live was approaching.

The discoveries were many. One was the sail, made from clothing materials to be a large piece of material attached to a pole sticking out on top of a raft. It allowed fishers to use the wind to move their raft as the sail would move the raft in the direction that the wind was blowing.

While the fishers would still need to use oars when the wind wasn't blowing or was blowing in the wrong direction, it was still a welcome invention by the People.

The remaining innovations were related to the farms and expanded upon the discovery that brought Seryn to the attention of the priests. Over the seasons, Seryn had led efforts to improve the process and that had finally borne fruit.

While the People had originally been putting uneaten food into the pots so they would rot into black soil, this process had been refined. The People had figured out which foods worked better than others and ways to make the process more efficient such as mixing the contents to get better exposure to the air.

It also turned out that by applying the resulting black soil to the farm lands, Seryn had uncovered something else that she had been studying over the years. The soil must hold some kind of power to it, to fuel the growth of plants living it.

The discovery of this growth energy explained several things such as how the black soil could improve the farm soil and why some areas were better for growing then others. The growth energy would be used up by the crops that the People planted, but there were methods to restore such as applying the black soil.

One of these methods would be another invention of Seryn. While growing crops would use up the growth energy of the soil, the growth energy could be preserved and perhaps regained a little by not constantly farming the soil.

By dividing the farmland in two and only using one half to grow crops while alternating which half was used, the People would reduce the chances of draining the soil of its growth energy.

While this would initially decrease how much food the farms would produce, the People or at least the priests could understand how this would benefit in the long run. The rest of the People had enough faith in them to believe them when they claimed that this new method is the best way in the long run.

Seryn was able to discover one last way of improving the farming methods of the People. Just like people and animals, plants also required water to live and Seryn was able to come to the conclusion that the People could control or improve the growth of plants by controlling the water that they received.

It would be hard work to set up everything in addition to taking generations, but by digging ditches and streams, the People could control the flow of water and direct to their farmlands to increase the growth of their crops. The key would just be figuring how much water was a good amount as both too much water and too little water could have negative effects on the crops and possibly the growth energy of the crops.

Seryn's wisdom wasn't just limited to the growing of crops. With the increasing size of both of the Arthwyd and the Merntir combined with the new and more complex methods being used by the People, Seryn decided that the People need some way to keep track of things beyond memory of those in charge. The old method was fallible and wouldn't scale up well as the People continued to expand.

And so the wisest of the priests came up with a new system for the priests to keep track of things. Using the magic gifted to them by Arthryn, the priests could carve symbols and drawings into stone.

To make sure that everyone knew what the stone carvings meant, Seryn organised a set of symbols to represent the relevant concepts that the People would need to keep track of. By ensuring that everyone would learn these symbols and would use them, Seryn hoped to keep the new records consistent and make sure that future generations wouldn't get confused by either prior generations or their fellow priests in their era.

Of particular note amongst this new system is that Seryn came up with a way to keep track of how much there is of a thing. By making five notches and then putting a line through it, the People would have a consistent way of tracking numbers in the new symbol system as each line through a set of five notches would represent five of the thing being counted.

Legacy Gained!
Agricultural Innovators: +1 Temp Econ to Farming actions,

But despite her discoveries, Seryn was not long for the world as even as the People were still implementing her inventions and innovations, the death claimed her as it did with all and Seryn the Wise died peacefully in her sleep.

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You got a good amount of innovations this turn and pretty much all of them were farming related to the point that I decided to shunt a couple of them into admin so you wouldn't get an unrealistic amount of agriculture tech advancement.

You also got a pretty nice Legacy out of it as well which gives you a good buff.