Geotech

Includes reinforced metals and stone, infrastructure enchantments, Aethertech machinery, and other Geo-related Aethertech.

Reinforced Stone & Metals

Reinforced stone and metals are a cornerstone of Earth engineering. Though not inherently magical, Earth manipulation refines their internal structure, leading to significant improvements in durability, tensile strength, and resistance to external forces.

Reinforced stone undergoes a process where microscopic fractures and imperfections in the crystalline lattice are methodically sealed, resulting in a near-perfect crystalline structure. This technique enhances its compressive strength, and makes it far more resilient to impact, pressure, and environmental wear than naturally occurring stone. It is commonly used in the construction of fortifications, underground passages, and critical infrastructure.

Reinforced metals benefit from similar, meticulous elimination of microstructural flaws. By realigning the atomic lattice and removing impurities, the tensile strength is greatly increased, making it highly resistant to bending, stretching, and shearing forces. This process refines the grain structure, creating a material that is both tougher and more ductile, with improved fatigue resistance and enhanced thermal stability. Reinforced metals are critical in the construction of adventuring equipment, machinery, vehicles, and structural components.

Earthtech

Earthtech refers to magical Dwarven tools that assist with mining, construction, sculpting, and other earthwork. These include shovels, pickaxes, chisels, hoes, and other tools that help rapidly sculpt and transform earth, enabling users to work at significantly enhanced speed. Their effects range from shaping earth into pliable and more easily workable forms to compacting and transforming earth into firm, durable forms that resist natural wear.

Dwarves have an abundance of Earthtech available. It was one of the earliest forms of Aethertech created, and continues to be in high demand.

Geo Machinery

Dwarven technology is most recognized by its widespread and ever-present use of Aethertech machinery. Dwarven settlements establish an infrastructure of machinery, tools, and assembly lines that touch nearly every aspect of their communities. These automate various resources, including construction materials, parts, tools, equipment, and simple devices. It also supports larger-scale projects like furnaces, workshops, mills, textile production, city infrastructure, and certain automated defenses. These technologies are so beneficial that dwarven assistance is regularly expanded, leading to the construction of Underwards in many Endros settlements.

Geolock

Geolocks are specialized locks that seal with the strength of steel until the appropriate Geokey is used on them. Geolocks are built with similar construction that allows all Geokeys to fit, but are calibrated to very specific magnetic configurations that create over four billion possible combinations. A Geolock can have multiple keys created for it, and Geokeys can be replicated with a professional Aethertech locksmith from Stonewarden.

Magilock

Magilocks are specialized locks infused with Mindshard technology. They seal with the strength of steel until they recognize their owner, or until the appropriate method is used to unlock them. Magilock instructions are typically quite simple, requiring only the most basic of Mindshards.

Hoverbike

Hoverbikes are single-person vehicles that provide levitation, propulsion, and maneuvering in Geo-saturated environments such as rocky terrain and underground territories. They reach speeds up to 60 kilometers in low Geo-saturation (e.g. desert, rocky terrain), and as high as 90 kilometers in high Geo-saturation (e.g. underground). In highly saturated areas (e.g. underground caverns) there is no effective limit to their levitation, but they may be capped at certain heights, speeds, or acceleration for Dwarven racing competitions or other events.

Maglift

Maglifts are Aethertech elevators that carry passengers and cargo. Movement is allowed in any direction, as long as there is a magtrack to follow. The most common use is vertical elevation, but there are use cases for horizontal movement.

Magsuit

Magsuits are Aethertech suits designed with highly specialized bracelets, anklets, waistbands, and chest pieces that allow their wearer to magnetically "fly" next to magtracks. These suits can be piloted manually, as long as they remain within the magnetic range of the tracks; but can also be transported automatically without a wearer, similar to magtrains.

Magball

Magballs are levitating sport balls containing a small, magnetized metal core and a Mindshard capable of advanced programming. The exteriors are leathery or otherwise soft, suitable for throwing or kicking. Magballs excel at interactions with ambient magnetic fields and Earth Aether, allowing them to hover and maneuver with unusual agility in nearly any land environment. This unique property makes them ideal for a variety of sports and recreational activities.

Demon Anchor

Demon Anchors are structures used in Labyrinths and Astralei Dungeons to attract and control the flow of ambient Miasma. In Labyrinths, hundreds of Demon Anchors are strategically placed in deep, spiraling patterns, grounding demonic energies to regulate the spawning locations of demonic entities. It is crucial for stunting the growth of shadowlands

Astralei Dungeon anchors use the same core principle with more selective routing. They draw demonic essence into prepared chambers, encounter routes, or containment zones where demons can be fought under controlled conditions. This control facilitates more effective trial design.

Glyphstone

Glyphstones are mostly-outdated devices that send and receive vibronic signals through the earth, converting them into simple glyphs. Specific tuning keys allow a horizontal grid of Luminite crystals to illuminate in carefully calibrated patterns. Its sensitivity is highest when coupled to a continuous metallic pathway, though it can detect signals through bedrock and earth along shorter distances. In the right environments, Glyphstones allow a very small amount of information to be transferred very rapidly. They still remain in limited use within Dwarven cities or for specific Underward use-cases, but most modern infrastructure has little use for them.