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It's possible that the average person in Vanda Nossëo might not have desperately wanted this planet to be a template.
It's further along than the last one was on meeting Vanda Nossëo. Some areas are literate enough that the easiest way to catch up on the last few years is just to read some books, biased though they may be. Azan lost its war with Sesat, but only after making it clear its continued independence was an existential threat and no compromise was possible. At which point an Azani councilmember and his new Sesati owner who was thoroughly fed up with Sesat started spreading rumors with the goal of eventually making it common knowledge that most of the people of Sesat would join in a plot to overthrow Sesat's current government in favor of restoring Azan he to power. They succeeded just well enough to spark a bloody revolution that did end with Sesat's king dead, Azan he ruling a somewhat expanded Azan, and Iral ruling the charred remains of northeastern Sesat. Azan gained a new princess less than a year after the war; she's still a child, but an older child who walks and talks and keeps abreast of Azani politics. A few months ago there was a funeral for Azan he.
New additions to Azan's royal library in the last couple of years include a book about electrical engineering as well as chemistry and biology textbooks that wouldn't be out of place on a twentieth century Earth. Satellite imagery shows some of the war wounded with glowing prosthetics; conjuring the prosthetics gets only bits of wire that do nothing in particular. Checking for alts of Azan's king and princess from the other world turns up two of each.
