Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-15888551-20130819093722/@comment-11766202-20130820193511

The world of Mundus is fine as it is. They already have gunpowder, but magick is more effective (Stros M'Kai has cannons along its wall IIRC), there's no need for medicine because magick, the Dwemer meshed tech and magic into their steamworks and automatons and they just got arrogant. You don't even need planes because you can just levitate, though not without breaking laws! The only thing the people of Tamriel would need as far as technology would be, say, faster ground transport. A talented mage could theoretically summon a gust of wind to speed a ship.

Off topic but if you're interested in a world of magick, that also includes technology, there was a game created a few years ago called Arcanum, wherein the world was equivalent technologically to ours in the late 1800s. However, the increase in technology weakened magick, so in a factory clad city, a mage would be weakened, but in a college of magic, guns would misfire and automatons would break. So there's not only a balance of good/evil but magick/tech