Dark Age of Luminarism (Lorica)

The Dark Age of Luminarism
The Dark Age is an immense span of time, thousands of years long, in which scientific and technological work was stifled, practically world-wide, as a result of political changes in Luminarism’s bureaucracy. During this time, the common person saw no improvement in quality of life, no new technologies, no progress. This is not to say that there was no progress; indeed, the mage-priests, though mostly filled with corrupt leechers who could do no science and invent nothing, still had some among them that were productive, though almost exclusively in the field of magical technology. These productive ones were tolerated by the rest, as their inventions - spells - gave the mage-priests ever-greater power over the world, and hence over their followers.