Magifactories

Magifactories were the most advanced magical invention during the Age of the Varn and perhaps the cornerstone of that civilization. The manufacture of items, whether they be mundane or magical, is a laborious process. And once such an item has been created, the only way to create more of its kind is to make them anew. While this was manageable to a certain degree when it came to mundane objects and tools, the creation of mechana was so expensive, complicated, and time-consuming, that it was impossible to create many copies of a single useful magical tool. The Varn saw this as an obstacle to the proliferation of magic and particular its application to benefit the people of Erdos. Thus, they sought a means to mitigate this problem. The result was the development of magifactories. Huge edifices that could mass produce any kind of item (though generally they were mostly used for mechana rather than non-magical items). Magifactories still required a completed prototype to copy as well as the raw materials necessary to build new iterations, but the copies could be made in hours instead of months. Magifactories were sold to countries and to the emerging Grand Guilds. The Varn themselves created their own Grand Guild—Varnian Mechanics—to create and sell magifactories. Thanks to them, a multitude of mechana circulated the world during the Age of the Varn leading to an unprecedented level of advancement to the quality of life of Erdosians. Estimates place the number of magifactories created to the low hundreds. Unfortunately, when Oblivion Bombs started flying during the War of the Varn, magifactories were prime targets. To date, not a single functional magifactory has been discovered and all efforts to reverse engineer them from what little ruins found, have been met with failure.