Mechanistic Era

After Obsidis took away all anthropoids' ability to use shamanic (and therefore catabolic) magic, eliminated all knowledge of phrenic magic, and had replaced all other deities capable of granting thetic magic, technology was entirely based on physical interactions. For a long time, tools and machines were mostly mechanical, and after hundreds of years steam technology enabled faster expansion across the continents. It was commonly agreed that this era began in -984 PY.