Arcane Laboratory Landmark Type
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Arcane Laboratory Landmark Type
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landmark -type research laboratory experiment
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
There is no landmark type for a place of magical experimentation and research, where mages work alone or together to design and execute arcane experiments and develop or refine new spells. The name laboratory comes from the term laboratorium, which is latin for 'a place of work or labor'. This term might be changed to incorporate a place for magic, something like an arcanatorium, or an other definition that fits the concept. Laboratory is too adjacent to scientific pursuits. Even though magic and technology are often seen as parallel, they are also fundamentally different, and deserve different names for locations of research and development.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Adding a landmark type for arcane research would further refine the already extensive list of types available.The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! Added as "Laboratory, Magical"—we used Magical instead of Arcane so that it can include laboratories that deal with non-arcane magic (such as divine or demonic magic)
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28/300 Votes · +4807 points
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by Masha Medov
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by Blossom Tree Art
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by Doctor Munchies
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by A Uncontrollable Kitten
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by SebGreg732
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by LiaFelis
on 2023-08-14 21:00 -
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by Rains Up Games
on 2023-08-14 00:38 -
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by dragonmasterjl
on 2023-08-10 11:09 -
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by Enoris.leinwand
on 2023-08-03 22:49 -
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by A Thundering Devil
on 2023-08-03 20:55 -
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by Goldkeeper777
on 2023-08-03 15:44 -
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by A Thundering Unicorn
on 2023-08-02 19:00 -
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by Keon Croucher
on 2023-08-02 11:53 -
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by Ratha
on 2023-08-02 00:26 -
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by ss2020
on 2023-08-01 20:54 -
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by JoellaKay
on 2023-08-01 20:04 -
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by Calipheer
on 2023-08-01 19:38 -
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by fauxgiraffe
on 2023-08-01 19:15 -
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by Reaper89
on 2023-08-01 18:30 -
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by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2023-08-01 15:59Scifantasy (aka science fantasy) is a genre that involves science fiction and fantasy. Even in most fantasy settings, magic is considered as distinct from science, I don't see the point of going against the norm by pretending it isn't the case, so I agree there could be a different kind of landmark. My only issue is that "arcane" is just a type of magic, so the name is probably not versatile enough.
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by AvalonArcana
on 2023-08-01 09:48 -
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by amelianite
on 2023-08-01 00:59 -
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by A Sneaky Hobbit
on 2023-08-01 00:38I don't consider magic to be "fundamentally different" from science - if magic exists in a universe, then it is part of that world's laws of physics. Physics is part of science, including if there's a physics branch for magic. Laboratories are for science, not technology alone - for instance, blood laboratories are a very real thing in the real world, and have nothing to do with technological pursuits (instead, they're about finding out information regarding what's in someone's blood). Magic *is* science, in worlds where magic exists. It's only "different" because we don't have it irl, that's the only difference of relevance. Otherwise, it is no different than say, gravity or electromagnetism - it would be part of the world's fundamental physics (which irl, we have four - the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force, and gravity, though the weak force and electromagnetic force merge into the electroweak force at high energy - magic would simply be a fifth force). I'm not against there being a new landmark type for magical experiments, it's just the reasoning given is full of holes.
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by Aria Nicest Reynard
on 2023-08-01 00:07 -
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by Gaëlle S.
on 2023-07-31 22:07 -
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by Exahall
on 2023-07-31 19:18 -
+300
by Bulska
on 2023-07-31 19:18
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