One of the features of the domain of Lamordia is the presence of "weird science" - the influences are very much Frankenstein and Doctor Moreau. As a consequence of that, I've inserted various weird science elements into the setting - the university has a Tower of Astrology (rather than astronomy), there's a Guide of Ressurrectionists, one of my villains will be a rogue phrenologist, and so on and so forth.
Of course, as far as the inhabitants of the setting are concerned, all of this is just 'science'. Especially since, in the context of a fantasy realm, it all works (at least sort of).
Unfortunately, one of my players suffered some fairly serious congnitive dissonance at all of that - I think he wants his magic labelled as such, and therefore had some real difficulties with my description. I suspect invoking Arthur C. Clarke's third law (about "sufficiently advanced technology") is unlikely to actually help.
All of which is rather unfortunate. I don't think I have any solution to that - I'll just need to try to work around it as best I can.
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