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Being alone in the desert like this sucks.
powerispain
Good for its neighbors. Why hasn't anyone tried doing anything about the place, does it say?
Sometimes people overfly it and collect refugees who haven't made it all the way to the border. It seems like nobody wants to, like, conquer it, and you can't issue trade sanctions when there's no trade.
Then they'd have to administer a bunch of people who hated them and wanted to kill them. By squarewide standards the place has no useful resources, natural or labor. If somebody wants land that would require annoying amounts of cultivation to be pleasant to live on they could just go to the bottom of the world, also perennially unpopular. (Someone has written an entire book about Why Nobody Conquers Ryganaav.)
powerispain
That's hilarious. Goodness these people are non-expansive, the humans in her world would have been crawling on every available square inch of surface area this place has.
Well, you can't walk there, but you could take a scoot or get a dragon to fly you there or an air mage. And once you'd visited it you could teleport.
Yes, although chemistry seems obscure and biology seems to be principally observational - taxonomy, animal behavior, etc.
powerispain
...Well, if doing magic doesn't hurt then they probably don't need to leverage it as much. Still. They--do they even know about underblood?
They don't call it that, but yes. Comes up discussing plant and animal breeding, the design of conception spells, identical twins, etcetera.
The Vansalese for it translates as "descent" and they had to figure out sex chromosomes for conception spells (apparently lesbians can only have girls) and have a solid grasp of simpler inheritance rules where they apply.
powerispain
She should ask the wizards if they think anyone would be interested in having science imported. Although probably the physics people would have to kind of start over here.