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Tedeshan Technology I
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  • Crab Claw Sails (Main): Since time immemorial, Tedeshani fishers, explorers, traders, and others who travel by boat have wanted a way to do so with less effort. Rowing is hard work, after all. Observant Tedeshani have also noticed that natural forces are strong: the ocean's currents pull driftwood and smaller vessels around with abandon, and the wind can even fell trees. However, most viewed these forces are brutal and uncontrollable, not as something that can be tamed and put to work. Until now.

    Some of the cleverer Tedeshani have realized that not all winds are created equal. While the greatest and strongest winds are indeed destructive, and even the weakest winds cannot be truly controlled, they can be harnessed. At first this concept was derided as foolish and foolhardy, a sentiment strengthened by the many capsizes and other embarrassing failures caused by early prototypes. It was soon widely accepted, however, that under certain circumstances, wind, captured by triangular linen sheets affixed to a mast, usually supported with two spars, could be used to pull a seagoing vessel along relatively safely. This novelty spread rapidly throughout the various coastal Tedeshan villages, and eventually became a mainstay of larger Tedeshan vessels, such as outriggers.

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  • Oarlocks (Minor): A mechanism that attaches oars to the hull of a boat, allowing for propulsive force to be more directly applied than by a person holding a paddle. Invented by Tedeshan sailors who wanted to row their boats faster, and used in larger Tedeshan plank boats and outriggers.
  • Steering Oars (Minor): An oversized oar attached to the rear of a seagoing vessel, used for steering; a precursor to the rudder. Invented by Tedeshan rear-oarsmen who were tired of relying on their incompetent fellows to help steer their vessel, and used in larger Tedeshan plank boats and outriggers.
  • Fishing Weirs (Minor): A partial-obstruction built in a river or in tidal waters to trap fish. Invented by Tedeshan fishers who were too lazy to hunt for fish, and used by most riverine and coastal fishing villages to get easy catches.

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