Paris looking very Duskwall-ish. Airships!
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Honestly the trollycar caught my attention the most. Clearly Duskwall needs Electro-trollies as an inner city counterpart with its Electro-rail. In the nicer areas of town only, of course.
Great picture. Great for the feel. Nice and evocative. I’d guess it’s at a little bit higher of a tech level than Duskwall though. That’s looking like the 1930s to me, I imagine Duskwall more like 50 years or so prior to that, but with a heavy layer of earlier tech levels over it.
Well, its go the Eiffel Tower being built, about halfway, which would put it around 1888, assuming the monument’s construction proceeds the same way in that universe as ours.
Fair enough, I don’t know dates on these things that well. When did all the little street cars first get introduced, do you know?
In any case, air ships, street cars and the Eiffel Tower all seem like they’re more advanced than Duskwall. Like I said though, it’s a wonderful picture.
Horse-drawn carriages that travelled on light rails were used as far back as the early 1800s, does that count?
Mechanically powered ones only came about in the late 1800s. I know SF (which I live near) had its iconic cable cars (pulled along by the moving wire, the car itself is unpowered) first appearing in the mid 1870s.
A quick peek at Wikipedia (I cheated!) shows electrically powered trolly cars first being majorly introduced in the 1890s. Steam powered trams, which more resembled light locomotices, showed up a few decades earlier in the 1870s/1880s.
And yeah, personally I’d put the “overall” tech level of Duskwall at the early 1800s. But the Electroplasmic tech is the perfect excuse to introduce fun mechanical toys like Electro-trams. (and yes, its a great bit of art)