Science and Technology

The developmental levelary of science and technology in Mortis as a whole, is roughly comparable to real-life late medieval levels.

General
Science and technology have not significantly advanced in the past several centuries. Recorded history is indeed vastly longer in the fantasy world than in real-life. Written history in Mortis began with the Invasion of Ancient Acoesa 120 years ago, albeit much of this is fragmentary and biased (see main article "Timeline"). It is possible that in earlier ages when magic was more prevalent, there was less drive to innovate new tools with science, leaving technology levels static for many centuries. Even so, while the general rule holds that gunpowder has not been discovered, there is not a one-for-one correspondence between the technology level in the real-life Middle Ages and the fantasy world of Mortis. For example, certain medical knowledge is much more advanced and accurate in Mortis than it was in the Middle Ages (partially because certain discoveries in history have been accidental, i.e. penicillin, not the culmination of a long aggregation of previous discoveries). The people in Mortis and beyond are also capable of producing vast feats of architecture, such as the Palace of Acoesa in Comer, without the use of magic at all.

While this might seem incongruent with the otherwise static medieval level of technology in Mortis, much of real-life medical knowledge was discovered purely through trial and error (or even by accident, such as the discovery of antibiotics). The healers might not know the underlying, theoretical reasons behind illnesses (what bacteria and viruses are), but they have accumulated a more advanced level of functional medical knowledge for practical purposes, such as what herb mixtures will heal infections, better surgical procedures, etc.

Military Technology
Military technology in Mortis is loosely comparable to the kinds used during the real-life Hundred Years' War and War of the Roses. Crossbows are prevalent, though they have not superseded longbows, which are also quite common on the battlefield (again, much like the 1400s in real-life northwestern Europe). Various kinds of advanced siege weapons such as catapults are employed. Horse cavalry are widely used. Heavy cavalry, using mounted knights in full plate armor, is a mainstay of the battlefield, though they are more commonly fielded by the wealthier regions of Mortis, while the poorer kingdoms make do with chain mail instead of full plate armor. Many armies frequently make use of different kinds of mercenaries.

Wildfire is similar to real life "Greek fire", which was actually used by the Byzantine Empire in medieval times, and thus was actually a technology known to medieval peoples (and thus not entirely out of keeping for a medieval setting). Dragons were, of course, used in warfare, but they are more of a magic-based fantasy creature. Moreover, the last known dragons in the world died out two hundred years ago, largely due to many of them being used up in a civil war of Acoesa. Thus, dragons have not been used on the battlefield in two centuries.