Magic flowed through daily life, powering farms, bridges, medicine, and trade. Skilled arcanists shaped cities around living currents of ley energy, while ordinary craftspeople built traditions that assumed magic would always remain abundant.

Engineers learned to bind heat, pressure, and minor elemental forces into reliable machines. Railways, airships, pumps, and factory tools spread quickly, bringing prosperity while making old magical trades costly and unnecessary.

Steam technology began replacing the institutions that once sustained spellcasters. Magical schools closed, enchanted infrastructure failed from neglect, and displaced mages became laborers, debtors, rebels, or hired troubleshooters.

Corar thrives beneath iron smokestacks and humming dynamos, but its progress has poisoned rivers, strained nations, and awakened resentment among those whose gifts no longer earn them a place.