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Argitoth said:

So you are saying everyone in the universe has the exact same technology at all times no matter WHAT? That's what national summons are, the natural imbalance of technology, or in this case magical knowledge.

Actually, magic and science are both pure research, while technology and spells (but NOT summonings!) are actual uses for the collected information. If the engineers/mages are good at creating devices that hurl bits of dense metal at the enemy at very high speeds//at heating and moving fire and flames, there might be variations but the results are often similar. In this case, we have to presume that the different nations use different techniques to get the same effects. Some spells could be restricted a little, like not giving Abysia Holy Pyre (especially if it is fixed to work on Devils!).

Summoning spells are very different. Summons aren't created, or at least not by the spells that summon them. They are called forth. National summoning spells summon forth the local critters, like Vampire Counts from the time of Malediction. Even if one civilization uses ships that consist of bionic, semi-living photosynthetizing matter because they have that sort of trees back at home, other civilizations can't use those unless they have the trees - and they probably don't. Similarly, Vampire Counts are as limited to the area of Black Forest as the Wolfherds or Fortune Tellers.

In China, they have stories about celestial servants cleaning the celestial houses, and celestial warriors guarding the palaces of the gods. In Dominions, around the capital of the empire of the Tien Chi people tell the same stories, because they have seen the creatures.

IMO, they are one with the dominion of the nation. Where people believe in the god of that nation, they believe in the creatures that serve him, and there they exist, or something similar. And if they can be summoned, they will be seen - and after even just a few generation in there, everybody would know the stories of horse-headed soldiers to be as true as the ghost stories, and that the mad old men who listened to strange sounds near the sea just might be eaten by something not-exactly-visible one of these days. Unfortunately, I have forgotten the name of the site that was a house on a hill near the sea, straight from Lovecraft's story. That would've made a better analogy. I hope that words means what I think it means, any way.