Technology and Shades

[+Oltux72]

People have been asking how magic system would impact technology and social life. We have looked at that question from a positive angle. But there is obviously a world with a very negative angle: Threnody

No fast movement:

• How do you run a railroad at night?
• Road traffic at night is also neigh impossible

No kindling fire:

• percussion caps are impossible - you could do these ancient guns that actually use a burning match
• a flame thrower should, however, be tolerated - you have a pilot fire. You could build a gun based on that
• internal combustion engines are right out - no cars, no diesel railway engines / steam engines and jets should be possible, though
• if sparks count as kindling fire, even electricity is impossible
• you need controls for stuff that could make sparks - 'my home is my castle' is not possible on Threnody

No shedding blood of another

• forget modern surgery
• forget modern dentistry
• even a syringe is playing with death
• road traffic is impossible. You would not survive many accidents.

 

It looks to me like you'd have a stark contrast between country and city with a highly regimented society.

[Karger]

Perhaps there is some way to use shades to your advantage?  We do not know Thronody's magic system.

[Pathfinder]

If Nazh is any indication (and he is because he is from Threnody), then there are ways to seal away shades and use them as weapons. If there is a way to store them into a hand held device, then there should certainly be ways to contain or control them in other ways. That is of the time line of the Wax and Wayne series.