Some key magic and technology have changed and advanced over the course of the past twenty years. As usual, war and conflict have been powerful goads for innovation and development. So has desperation to remain viable and important after major setbacks. Fledgling gunpowder, which was being worked on simultaneously by a network of artificers, has blossomed into a full-blown industry, and gunpowder weapons are the norm now. At the same time, magical innovations of Galather like the magical communication mirror were seized and developed by House Sivis to make more direct, rapid communication possible. The Warforged, behind the mists and hiding in the Mournland, have their own nation and their own innovations as well -- including their own answer to gunpowder. And, of course, there's more....