gaslight

Artificial lighting produced via the mundane process of burning various gasses inside a glass combustion chamber.

Utility

Used as an alternative lighting source in less developed regions without ready access to a ley line and where crystal is prohibitively expensive.

Manufacturing

Produced in foundries in some regions, and only by cottage shops in others.

Social Impact

Critical for mining, tunelling, and nighttime activity in less developed regions. Expanded utilization enabled by increased extraction of burngas has raised standards of living in less developed regions such as rural Eastern Irle, the Central Kingdoms, and the less developed parts of the southern highlands.

Parent Technologies

• New Learning

Inventor(s)

The precise inventor is not known due to the lack of surviving written records from the time but archeologists generally agree that they seemed to appear first in the East, in the regions now comprising the Drothian Empire and the Vossian sphere, and spread rapidly to the rest of 2nd Eon Visere from there.

Access & Availability

Universally available and extremely cheap across Visere in regions where it is used at all.

Complexity

The gaslight lamps themselves are extremely simple but there is some complexity involved in extracting, storing, and transporting the burngas used to fuel them.

Discovery

Dates from the mid 2nd Eon around 20,000 BF where examples appear in the archeological record during the Era of the Kingdoms of Metal. It appears to have been utilized heavily in areas without ready access to a ley line due to the relative expense of crystal in those times.