Blackpowder

Explosions, just add fire.

"There are many uses for blackpowder. You can create great spectacles to wow audiences, remove stubborn stumps from otherwise usable farmland, improve mining speeds, or... Your face tells me you want to know about how effective our powder is in warfare. Always about the killing with you people."

Mix Carefully

Blackpowder is composed of three main ingredients - charcoal, sulfur, and nitrate. Charcoal is the most common of these resources and able to be made as long as wood is available. Nitrates can be obtained from a variety of sources but most commonly from decomposing plants, feces, and urine. Sulfur however can only be obtained from underground sources.
These three components are mixed in specific ratios to create blackpowder. The alchemists making it must take a lot of precautions or risk their labs, homes, and lives going up in flames.

This Changes Everything

The idiom "This changes everything." comes from the Time of Rebuilding and a soldier who fought in the first battle where firearms were used. The power of firearms would warp the battlefield moving forwards.
Skyships were not initially equipped with heavy weapons but after some ships were stolen by pirates, nations began to equip their vessels with cannons.

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The Boom Brigade

The most unusual military unit on Breharan, Toreil's 2nd Detachment - better known as the Boom Brigade - is the first unit to specialize in the use of firearms and explosives. Only Grara with its large deposits of sulfur is able to supply a unit that so liberally applies explosives to problems.

Drunken Scholars

There is a lot of incentive for people to discover improved formulas for blackpowder. One spring, two scholars - each independently working on a recipe for the powder - imbibed too much of the drink and challenged each other to a duel to see who was the better scholar. This became known as the Scholar's Two-Shot.

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