Steamwheel (Exampleverse) By Imperator-Zor Watch

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Two centuries before the rise of the first Empire, the island city of Gral was at the head of wealthiest (per capita) of the Five Southern Kingdoms. It's fleets was able to impose taxes on commerce passing along the coastline, allowing it to establish a foothold on the mainland through mercenaries. Some of it's wealth was invested into the creation of the Grand Academy, often recognized as one of the greatest schools of the pre-modern world. Scholars, philosophers and thinkers from the Five Kingdoms and the northern city states came to work for a reasonable stipend while princes and lords from far came away to study. Many breakthroughs in mathmatics, astronomy, architecture, medicine and philosophy were made in the Grand Academy's halls. Among it's more notable products was Vallicant's Steamwheel, the first instance of a steam engine. According to legend the machine was inspired by watermills and was created on a bet with another scholar, though accounts on what that bet was are contradictory. Centuries Latter the design would be the inspiration for steam turbine engines.

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