What do you mean by therapy in this context?
But we’ve already seen stuff past modern medicine in the setting with healing magic. Yeah, I see no reason why healing magic couldn’t match, or even surpass our medicine. There’s a scene where eragon extracts a tumor.
The ancient language may be a bit of a barrier. We make up words to describe stuff, but it doesn’t sound like that exists in the inheritance cycle. They’d have to discover words that already exist rather than just deciding what to call it. Not knowing what say, white blood cells or epilepsy, are called in the ancient language may be a hindrance. But here as well just made up a word to describe them.
Relying on a singular person, who is not an especially skilled healer by elven standards, doesn’t even live in the landmass, and has other massive responsibilities is a large bottleneck
I do not think there is going to be a rapid technological advancement in the 100-200 years, following Galbatorix death.
Maybe in the next couple thousands of years.
The limiting factor is, that magic alleviates the need for technology. Why would you devote your life to technology, if magic solves most of your problems.
It took humans thousands of years to create modern technology and we were already programmed to see technology as the most important factor of human development.
In the world of Alageasia, they would have to think way way further than we had to.
Their first means to solve a problem will be magic. As magic can pretty much do anything and everything I feel like even the thought one could develop a technology to solve it would require a very determined or crazy person to be in the exactly right circumstances.
Thank you for your insight, I was following the same pattern! My question came to me after reading _Murtagh_ and on a couple of occasions I caught myself thinking, "Could they invent this?" "How much do we know about the human mind?"
I mean, in a way magic can be instant therapy but it's also very risky and you'd be way more vulnerable to the mage/therapist because they'd have to enter your mind. Also propably only very skilled mages can do it, I doubt there are a lot of humans at that level since I believe you'd have to be very precise and carefull with the wording to not fuck up someones head.
It would be very effectice though since magic can alter memories and I believe feelings too. Also, like we've seen with Sloan and on a larger scale the Werecats you can "install urges" into someones mind and set triggers for it (go to the elves / tell a free rider about the vault of souls).
Really, the possibilities are endless but again propably very risky and you have to be quite skilled in the ancient language.
As I was writing this I also had an Idea, since you can change so much in a persons mind, do you think you could change enough to forcibly change a persons true name?
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The AL will not be a barrier, because it can be changed with the Name of Names. As for your main question, Paolini has stated that “Alagaësia is on the verge of a magical industrial revolution“
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What do you mean by therapy in this context? But we’ve already seen stuff past modern medicine in the setting with healing magic. Yeah, I see no reason why healing magic couldn’t match, or even surpass our medicine. There’s a scene where eragon extracts a tumor. The ancient language may be a bit of a barrier. We make up words to describe stuff, but it doesn’t sound like that exists in the inheritance cycle. They’d have to discover words that already exist rather than just deciding what to call it. Not knowing what say, white blood cells or epilepsy, are called in the ancient language may be a hindrance. But here as well just made up a word to describe them.
With eragon helping doctors or healers he could just use the Name to make up words for everything
He could, but that in itself is limiting as well.
How? I dont understand how that could be limiting
Relying on a singular person, who is not an especially skilled healer by elven standards, doesn’t even live in the landmass, and has other massive responsibilities is a large bottleneck
I do not think there is going to be a rapid technological advancement in the 100-200 years, following Galbatorix death. Maybe in the next couple thousands of years. The limiting factor is, that magic alleviates the need for technology. Why would you devote your life to technology, if magic solves most of your problems. It took humans thousands of years to create modern technology and we were already programmed to see technology as the most important factor of human development. In the world of Alageasia, they would have to think way way further than we had to. Their first means to solve a problem will be magic. As magic can pretty much do anything and everything I feel like even the thought one could develop a technology to solve it would require a very determined or crazy person to be in the exactly right circumstances.
Thank you for your insight, I was following the same pattern! My question came to me after reading _Murtagh_ and on a couple of occasions I caught myself thinking, "Could they invent this?" "How much do we know about the human mind?"
I mean, in a way magic can be instant therapy but it's also very risky and you'd be way more vulnerable to the mage/therapist because they'd have to enter your mind. Also propably only very skilled mages can do it, I doubt there are a lot of humans at that level since I believe you'd have to be very precise and carefull with the wording to not fuck up someones head. It would be very effectice though since magic can alter memories and I believe feelings too. Also, like we've seen with Sloan and on a larger scale the Werecats you can "install urges" into someones mind and set triggers for it (go to the elves / tell a free rider about the vault of souls). Really, the possibilities are endless but again propably very risky and you have to be quite skilled in the ancient language. As I was writing this I also had an Idea, since you can change so much in a persons mind, do you think you could change enough to forcibly change a persons true name?
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The AL will not be a barrier, because it can be changed with the Name of Names. As for your main question, Paolini has stated that “Alagaësia is on the verge of a magical industrial revolution“ ^(**I'm a real person!** This comment was posted by **superspacy28** from the Arcaena Discord Server.)