>>89156498But thats a load of bullshit because magic is essentially retardedly advanced technology that can hack and edit reality itself so its the equivalent of humans stumbling upon the science that very creators of the universe worked with. Any magical society should be ludicrously more advanced than any technological one because for one thing
YOU CAN CHOOSE MAGIC TO INSTANTLY CREATE DEVICES.
You could just magic to create an entire city with a sewage city and all that stuff, no need for construction vehivles, you could use magic to bring people back to life or make them unkillable, you can use magic terraform the environment and control the weather, you can use magic to produce endless energy, you can choose magic FOR ANYTHING.
A realistic version of a magical society is in Avatar where the Fire Nation went from early China to Imperial Japan in just 300 years because of their power to create fire instantly allowing them to easily skip to steam technology while we normal humans took millenia to get there(because Romans didnt invent the engine yet).
The Earth Empire is also by the far the most realistic depiction of a terrakinetic society.
Earthbenders have access to molding rocks and crystals and stuff, thus mining minerals and resources is a cakewalk for earthbenders, the Earth people could have easily discovered fossil fuel power due to how easy it is for them to get access to it. Metalbenders are a game changers BECAUSE THEY CAN FUCKING CONTROL METAL THE KIND OF SUBSTANCE THAT MAKES UP 90% OF THE USEFUL TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE EVER BUILT.
Just imagine Earth bending cavemen stumbling on some iron then molding it into a knife, with metalbending they dont even need to create furnaces to shape the metal either so the possibilities are virtually endless. They can do impossible things like turn solid iron into wires which is a feat that is hard for us normal humans to do due to cost and all that shit.
