[Dragaera] Centuries and Centuries of Dragaeran history and no one has invented a steam engine?

[Howard Brazee via Dragaera]

> On May 30, 2016, at 1:31 PM, corey+scratchfactory.com via Dragaera <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
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> Perhaps the sudden and unprecedented flourishing of sorcery during (or immediately after) the Interregnum gives weight to the idea that the Cycle somehow inhibits technological innovation?
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> Perhaps part of the Cycle's purpose is to hold the world in a sort of stasis, perhaps as a way of resisting the Jenoine? So that when the Cycle was broken and the Orb lost, that necessary stasis was disrupted?


Ooh, I like.    If so, we may discover that in a future book.

It’s funny - sometimes I wish I will live long enough to read the completed series.    It’s not that I would know that I died early and missed it!