[Dragaera] The New Palace

[Ken Koester]

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

>On Tue, June 1, 2010 11:09, Ken Koester wrote:
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>>Scott Schultz wrote:
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>>>I would expect that the actual construction
>>>is carried out using typical medieval technology, with sorcery used to
>>>reinforce it in places where some extra support might be necessary. (That
>>>assumes that you don't need someone to constantly maintain the spell.
>>>I've
>>>never been 100% clear on that.)
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>>I wouldn't, actually.  Medieval building technology was pretty hit or
>>miss on that scale; medieval builders didn't understand things as well
>>as the Romans had centuries earlier.  I would think it at the level of
>>Roman technology or Renaissance perhaps.  I'm thinking of Brunelleschi's
>>dome, on the one hand & hydraulic cement on the other.  I would think
>>Dragarean builders are reasonably careful architects withiin each
>>separate phase, although not caring too much about how the ensemble
>>looks after a few cycles of improvements have passed.
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>Dragaeran architects (and engineers?) are going to care a lot more about
>how long things stand up.  The original architect will quite possibly
>still be around and findable 2000 years later; his reputation could be
>damaged by early buildings of his collapsing.
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Which is whyI think the tech would be better than medieval.  But we've 
seen several examples of agglutination in building, so I think that 
would be prominent in any really long term structures.  The overall 
appearance doesn't seem as important to them as it would today.

Snarkhunter