On the 4th of Nerament 1537, a 500meter meteorite known as the Alcharbaith-stone crashes into the heart of what would one day be its major city. The population of the region is sparce, but the damage it noted as the tablets from the region document the horrors of the sudden and violent entry of the rock into the lives of the locals. In an earlier era, this act would be unnoticed...But to Magharma in the 1500s it was a goldmine discovered. For this was no meer stone rock from space, but a damestear meteorite which would be the backbone of the local economy for years to come. Development of Alcharbaith region came quickly, settlement of the region spiked within the fallowing two years with its population more than tripling as ogre fortune seekers began operations to use the material in every possible way. Being a mountain and the largest rock for a thousand miles, it quickly became a major investment and the government organized around it quickly became one of the first 20 members of the Grand Assembly which Magharma would use to help organize the growing state. Despite this, this sudden wealth becomes a poisoned chalice: Wealth was distributed unequally, with much of the would be-miners ending up impoverished and serfs in all but name to the local leadership. And worse still, is the meteorite quickly depletes as greedy locals pick it for injunctions of cash. By the start of the 1600s the region returns to livestock farming, the only remnant being a reserved and guarded chunk of meteorite that is more a local oddity then a true piece of wealth.
@kyokyodisaster4842 wonderful as always. The damestear was a stroke of unexpected luck and this is definitely how our society would have handled it sadly
On the 4th of Nerament 1537, a 500meter meteorite known as the Alcharbaith-stone crashes into the heart of what would one day be its major city. The population of the region is sparce, but the damage it noted as the tablets from the region document the horrors of the sudden and violent entry of the rock into the lives of the locals. In an earlier era, this act would be unnoticed...But to Magharma in the 1500s it was a goldmine discovered. For this was no meer stone rock from space, but a damestear meteorite which would be the backbone of the local economy for years to come.
Development of Alcharbaith region came quickly, settlement of the region spiked within the fallowing two years with its population more than tripling as ogre fortune seekers began operations to use the material in every possible way. Being a mountain and the largest rock for a thousand miles, it quickly became a major investment and the government organized around it quickly became one of the first 20 members of the Grand Assembly which Magharma would use to help organize the growing state.
Despite this, this sudden wealth becomes a poisoned chalice: Wealth was distributed unequally, with much of the would be-miners ending up impoverished and serfs in all but name to the local leadership. And worse still, is the meteorite quickly depletes as greedy locals pick it for injunctions of cash.
By the start of the 1600s the region returns to livestock farming, the only remnant being a reserved and guarded chunk of meteorite that is more a local oddity then a true piece of wealth.
@kyokyodisaster4842 wonderful as always. The damestear was a stroke of unexpected luck and this is definitely how our society would have handled it sadly
Great videos as always