Hello Althanasians!

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I looked at the wiki and found these quotes:

Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aedicula ... Prominent features of modern Alerian architecture combine the aforementioned style with brass, clockworks, and several other technological features that support their lifestyle.

So clockwork is a thing. Clockwork style equipment, weapons, and such could be a thing as well. Music boxes also entered my mind.

Artists are now exploring a brand new frontier, photography in its infancy.

Based off of this, very clearly, early cameras exist. For example, the RL Daguerreotype methods of photography. It's plausible that early movie cameras, or at least projectors, aren't that far from existence.

Engineers' Guild - The newest but fastest-growing guild, the Engineers construct the great machines and modern factories in Alerar. If it runs with steam and gears, the Engineers probably built it. Slang term: "White Hood."

This gives us a lot to work with. So "great machines" and "modern factories" means that sweat shops existed, alongside sowing machines, those things that made threads that were hazardous that kids had to work with and get traumatic injuries from...

Alerar really needs some Workers Unions...

Alchemists' Guild - Responsible for crafting everything from simple salves to the sorcerous power sources of the airships, the Alchemists Guild is the only one that still practices magic, albeit in a way much more bound to the material world. Everything from potions to rune-forged steel comes from the Alchemists. They maintain vast elaborate laboratories with all the beakers and tubes one might expect. Many even venture into more traditional scientific research, such as rudimentary physics and geology. A common slang for an Alchemist is "Blue Hood", referencing their standard uniforms.

The part about Runes is really interesting. Not only is "down to earth" lowkey magic and science practiced, but the art of using runes (a thing more closely associated with magic) is used to.

The Boilerworks is the name given to any one of six massive facilities located along the river that cuts through Ettermire. The Boilerworks draws water from the river, stoking it into massive steam engines which drive nearly all the sources of mechanical power in Ettermire. The steam engines link to a network of chains and gears that run under the streets of the city, which provides municipal mechanical power by means of a drive train that transfers the mechanical power from under the streets to in the home, which can provide power for anything from dough-kneading to a smith's bellows.

Electricity exists confirmed. Does this mean fridges and laundry machines exist?

Beneath the city lies a vast network of tunnels and sewers. This endless maze is said to contain secret passageways to every part of the city and as such.

Sewer systems exist too.

The Armory is where the dwarves and dark elves sell their wares to those who make the long journey to Kachuck -- and who earn their trust. Excellent armor and weaponry of all sorts can be purchased here, but only if the dwarves decide they like you.

Dwarves also make advanced everything's.