Technological Stasis (Lorica)

Technological Stasis
Each continent of the world of Faera has its own reasons why technological (in particular magical) advancement had been suppressed (several of which are human caused):
 * Ethaya has its six guilds, who use guild secrets to paralyze inventiveness (a mercantile reason)
 * Origina has the religion of the luminarium, which is at odds with the workings of the world and thus works to suppress science (since it would reveal the religion to be a hoax) and thus paralyzing discoveries (a religious reason)
 * Detariya has the manasappers, whose ubiquity makes it impossible to work magic; the manasappers are an invasive species brought over from an isolated island, but the island has its natural predators (a natural reason)
 * Tyria has an empire that only allows use of magic to be restricted to the royal family and appointed bureaucrats, and secret to everyone else. The royal family does magical research but a handful of people can’t make meaningful technological progress that way (a governmental reason)
 * Aeta is too cold for any faera to grow or even for people to live (a climate reason)