With temple sponsorship of academia came many new innovations, as the demands of governance, theology and understanding were united in a single locale.

Among the first developments were sundials, which were seen as a physical manifestation of Shar's blessing and a sign of his approval of the new academic direction - though the blessing of his light, his passage across the sky would aid timekeeping and thus administration itself.

Another novel development was that of humourism, an understanding of disease hitherto unknown. Through appreciating disease as a malody of the spirit, which could be communicated between individuals just as could good or foul moods, better treatments could be arranged and the incidence and severity of diseases ultimately reduced.

With the influx of new knowledge came a necessity to gather it all in one place. With academics coming to represent a substantial portion of temple traffic, they needed their own spaces, and so ziggurats began to add libraries to house the academics and their works. With more written texts being produced, the insufficiency of existing writing mediums came to the fore and so parchment was adopted to alleviate the issue.

Even the libraries were not enough, though, with studious scribes demanding that the libraries remain quiet places for them to work on their transcriptions or novel manuscripts whilst vociferous academics professed their opinions on how the world worked. Fortunately for the academics their knowledge and texts brought substantial influence to the temple in the form of legitimating their rule, and so the Erdai were happy enough to fund academies in addition to the libraries.

The Urapi's new Nizarite clients made their own contributions, foremost among them the dromedary camel, which they equipped with camel saddles.

Architects made their own contributions. Nekvarta was hot compared to the old Urapi haunts on the Varic Plateau, and many Urapi professed a desire to find something cold whenever the heat grew particularly oppressive. Harnessing winds and evaporative cooling in a chamber build for purpose, the Yakchals were capable of yielding ice on particularly cool days and were simply a more comfortable temperature the rest of the time. Yakchals became common haunts of academics who subscribed to humourist theories, arguing that all things were good in moderation... and that Nekvarta was too damned hot.

• General Techs

  • Sundials (MST, Have solar calendar)
  • Humourism (Not MST, suggest Medical Clinic and Academies possibly as pre-reqs)
  • Libraries (MST, have clay tablets and writing - RP and in this post)

• Military Tech

  • Camel saddles (MST, have camel saddle if approved below and leatherworking)

• Academic Focus

  • Academies (MST, have writing, libraries if approved above, and apothecaries to teach)

• Architectural

  • Yakchal (Not MST - possible pre-reqs: Cisterns and Qanats, maybe Windcatchers or some other proof-of-understanding of evaporative cooling)

• Diffusion

  • Dromedary Camel from Palkh (even if IRP it's from Nizarites) (MST)
  • Parchment from Palkh (MST, have prepared leather writing and writing)
  • Water wheel from Palkh (MST, have irrigation channels and cranks)