Nightstar The Bright

It must be said that my point was that without any change in Austrism and the Idrian opinion of awakening the kingdom of Idris would cease to exist. I do agree with your opinion that Austrism is very unlikely to disappear completely, but it will need to change. After 300 years of independence and especially striving to change from the Hallandren the Idrian culture is deeply rooted into these people, and so is insanely unlikely to disappear. No conquest can change this. I do want to say that the Idrians will have to change their opinions about the trading of breaths and awakening. I also doubt Siri will be able to change much, the hatred of anything Hallandren and awakening is rooted to deep to change in s single lifetime, the process would likely take many years. In modern times nations don’t really acquire new technologies through alliances, except maybe classified technology (military stuff). Proper alliances would indeed protect them from full scale invasions, though this doesn’t prevent economic collapse/not being able to compete. (Land) Trade routes also matter far less in modern times, though this would still give them some power. The coppermind has the following to say about Austrism: Austrism, as practiced by Idrians, considers Breaths to be intimately linked to human souls. For that reason followers of Austre consider holding the Breaths of others to be a sin, and using them to Awaken to be an even greater sin. Please let me know if there’s a wob somewhere out there that says the opposite/ if it’s somewhere in the book, or if you simply misunderstood/had something else in your mind. I don’t think it very likely that Hallandren and Idris reunify, they are simply to different, one doesn’t just remove 300 years of hatred and misinformation. It is likely that Austrism will return to some of its former beliefs, but this will likely take a long time as the hatred for awakening is deeply rooted in Idrian culture. I do also think it likely some religious groups will form worshipping the current form of Austrism.

Now I’m certainly not an expert on the Amish, so please correct me if I say something wrong, but I’m fairly sure that they never held land that was very important, unlike the Idrians who live in a mountain range full of minerals, these mountains also contain the only copper mines in the known world (during the Pahn Kahl rebellion).

Austrism in its current form teaches against awakening and giving away your breath and while in a medieval setting this isn’t the biggest problem, as Nalthis become more and more modern this will quickly become more and more problematic. This is due to how modernisation on Nalthis will go hand in hand with innovation in awakening, fairly quickly awakening will be used in everyone’s life, if indirectly such as through the production of electricity or the purification of water. Idris will not only lack these technologies, but due to there being easy ways using breath, the technologies which we use for these same things will be severely underdeveloped. Due to their refusal to using breath they might also get behind on the markets of the world, as awakening will provide cheaper and faster ways of making products then regular machines. This would result in Idris having no chance to compete outside its own markets, and either a full economic collapse or a self functioning, but expensive, market (assuming they don’t import more then truly necessary). This all means that at the very least Idris will become technologically inferior, and people will seek out the other nations in the area as life there is much better. This would lead to the population of Idris becoming smaller every year. Another more serious consequence is that of another nation invading. Awakening is already being used in warfare by the time of the manywar, and as awakening improves this role will only become larger, think of self flying aircraft or tanks that can drive and shoot autonomously etc, Idris will be horribly outmatched against a nation with these technologies and more. The only future where Idris survives is one without Austrism, or at least the current version of it. Fortunately it is likely that as technology advances Idris will have to change its views on awakening, as ignoring it is simply not viable. What do you guys think?

So apparently everything alive contains investiture, or maybe it’s better to say: everything that contains investiture is alive, this includes plants and animals. Lifesense senses everything that is alive, or, as a popular theory states, it senses investiture. Wait, bacteria are considered alive, so you can probably sense bacteria as well. Basically everything around you has bacteria growing on it, by sensing bacteria you will sense the contours of everything around you,. And the best thing is that unlike with ironsight you don’t even have to be ‘looking’ at it. So, do we have another version of Ironsight?