[@BBeast] If there are tools available that we can see to facilitate your system, I would be interested to see it work. We have the dice here on RPGuild, it's the long-term polls that I don't have any idea about. Just so long as the RNG doesn't select the same person consecutively, it sounds good.

As for technology, why do you think the Greek gods were so pissy at Promethius? This is what happens.

I was under the impression that we would be in the bronze age for another several turns. The invention of steel this early was a tad jarring, though if it's magical, rare, and misunderstood, I guess I can accept it for now.

I don't know. As long as there's a gap between innovation and ubiquity, I'd be mostly comfortable. I think it's just that nations move slower than mortal lifespans, which puts temporal consistency at odds between the various elements of this RP. We have a lot of things going on.

As for nations, remember that we have -- at best -- city states with a few protectorate communities under them. At widest, we have tribal nomadic horde cultures. Actual nationhood isn't really a thing yet (not until Yorum or some other unifying arc gets completed). I think what we have now is a fair natural progression from the spread of agriculture (which, admittedly, I thought there was a longer period of time that passed to give that, though Vowzra dying can hand-wave that :P).

The funny thing is that the scale of Galbar appears to be relatively small compared to Earth in terms of territory if, for instance, Vetros controls the entire firewind desert. Local maps are few and far between. It's probably easiest to take it as interpretation rather than accurate measurements.