[quote=@Scarifar]
Don't forget the fact that Vestec shared the knowledge of other races with the rest of the world.
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I haven't forgotten that. I'll work in some recognition of that into some of my upcoming Gerrik posts. On the one hand, it's somewhat stealing Gerrik's job. On the other hand, Gerrik's job was going too slowly.

[@Muttonhawk],

I do not know any proper tools which could allow such a poll to take place. In a pinch, we could use a Google Sheet or something, and trust people to only edit their own details.

With tech, even away from the cities, progression has been fairly fast. Consider Mesathallasa. We have big villages (such as Fibeslay, or the trade empire of Vascogne). Some have even embarked on major construction projects. And they haven't even got agriculture, and unless they learnt fire from some other source they've only had fire for less than a century. I find it best not to think too much about it, though.