Discoveries

Throughout the Aurian Galaxy's history a number of individuals or groups of researchers have made breakthroughs in science, engineering or other material and non-material devices or processes which have paved the way how certain civilizations have progressed.

Processes

Glassmaking
Inventor: Glasstos Firetongue
Year of Discovery: 62
The process of glassmaking follows an individual melting sand into a liquid which can then be made into glass. This discovery was achieved by Glasstos Firetongue, an ancient Senkh scholar who worked as an apprentice Blacksmith in early Shassusin when he discovered that under extreme heat the common sand that exists in Livanin Desert would melt into a transparent substance. He would soon abandon his calling in making weapons and armour and instead begin to make glass, a material he named after himself as he saw it his life's pride now. Glasstos would go on to sell high-end jewelry using his glassmaking technique which left him one of the richest men in the dawn of the Senkh empire.

Vehicles

Canoe
Inventor: Pes'so
Year of Discovery: circa -1000
While the process of crafting watercrafts to navigate over lakes, rivers, seas or even oceans has been around for multiple millennia, Auria's first historical watercraft inventor is honoured as Pes'so, a Troll fisherman who carved the very first canoe out of a tree trunk and used it to reach farther into sea to catch a bounty of fish for his tribe. The name Pes'so is memorialized in the Troll folklore piece known as "Pes'so Bounty" which tells the tales of Pes'so and how he discovered his craft.

Skyship
Inventor: Vex Springtail
Year of Discovery: 528
Large aircraft which can fly past a planet's atmosphere and land safely on another planet. Ages past the Fenik inhabited the forests of Gwynbrenon but were threatened by two larger forces into extinction or servitude, the Elves and the Trolls. Having the will to live on, the first chieftain of a united Fenik tribe employed the guidance of a cunning individual by the name of Vex who had researched the navy of the Trolls and the flight of birds, coming up with the idea of a flying ship that could get them off the world to somewhere safe. Though there were unbelievers in the united tribe, they pushed on to gather the necessary materials and put together the galaxy's first Skyship in the year 528.
The first Skyship was the Model A1 which had its hull made out of metal and wood while the engine was powered by an elemental artifact stolen from Trolls.
By the year 1220 most Skyships became powered on Magic.

Weapons

Bow
Inventor: Sibu
Year of Discovery: circa -1072
The first ever invented ranged weapon that isn't just hurling rocks or throwing spears is credited towards an Avari individual by the name of Sibu. Little is recorded of the ancient era of the Avari but Sibu has has shrines and scriptures created in her name that tell the tale of the Avari huntress crafting a fine weapon that hurls sharp arrows far into the distance with accuracy and swiftness.
Crossbow
Inventor: Heros
Year of Discovery: 285
In the early years few methods of ranged attacks were yet figured out. Due to their small size and low physical strength, the Squros would risk much to get into direct combat with monsters or opposing mortals which inspired the Squros inventor and explorer Heros to find a way to deliver pain from a distance. He found that using elastic vines in the forest he grew up in to hurl sharp rocks at monsters to be an effective and risk-free way of fighting but the portability of his device remained something to be desired in so he would craft a wooden frame with an elaborate trigger mechanism that allowed for easy on the move shooting. The first crossbow bolts would be made out of rocks, sharpened and shaped into short spikes.