[Dragaera] A Teckla thought

[Alexx Kay]

>They seem to develop & learn at
> human rates.

Counterexample: Savn.  He begins his apprenticeship at somewhere around
age 85, at which point he's just starting to be interested in girls.

Paresh gets his own land to farm much earlier, at a 'mere' age 60, but
it's clear that he's still considered a very young man at that point.

>    Think about how much Earth has changed in four thousand
> years.

Some force is artificially keeping the planet of Dragaera stagnant
culturally and technologically (or was doing so until the Interregnum, at
least.  The nature of this force is a matter of considerable perennial
debate on this list.

Alexx

"I once heard an anecdote about a contemporary magician who decided to
 put this principle to the test by adopting a belief so strange that
 nobody could possibly mistake it for reality and then seeing what
 happened.  The belief he decided to go with was than Noddy, the little
 toy-car driving and bell-hat wearing protagonist of Enid Blyton's
 children's books, was in fact the absolute creator of the Universe and
 the God of all Gods.  Within a couple of weeks he abandoned the
 experiment in alarm, finding himself on the brink of conclusively
 proving that Noddy was the Supreme Being."
    -- Alan Moore, in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_