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It's the year 2016 and I've just uploaded a jpeg of a War Goblin armed with a flame thrower and one of my dedicated watchers Kaitoraikan (One of about 30 watchers back then) is highly confused at the idea 😂

And then I asked myself, what era is Westwall set in anyway? What is the technological age that the setting takes place in?
The answer??? nearly 8 years later???...
It varies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The original and first story of Westwall was set in the SECOND GREAT WAR, though since then I've explored both forward and backward in time to different levels of advancement.

Overall: The setting features elements of dark age and medieval culture and society, by the beginning of the second war inventions like the firearm are new concepts. The second great war fuels an arms race that pushes technology forward at lightning speed fueled by the greed of goblins and ogres, by the end of the war some races have technology equal to 1940s earth
So that will be our basis: During the second great war the tech varied primarily by species and location.

From left to right:
Pale Orcs: The pale orcs live like hunter gatherers, though their weapons crafted in the black forge are the exception, their homes, lifestyle, and general tech level remains at the level of hunter gatherer.
The Pale Orcs have a strong sense of consistency and efficiency, they do not do anything that would cause weakness to grow in their small population, never settle lands, are purely nomadic, and have a sense of balance that keeps them from wanting more than the basic standard of living.

ElvenKind: (Sometimes called AelvenKind to sound less generic and also tie them to other fae species)
The elves do not use weaponry like firearms, and have no reliance on machinery.
Due to their high magical affinity in an otherwise low magic world, elves are simply not interested in most forms of technology, are highly traditionalist, and do not respect the creations of non Elven species.

They consider the sight of pollution from machinery to be a blight and moral failing tied to an innate inferiority in the lesser species.
Seeing in them a need to overcompensate for their lesser nature with tools.

Their architecture, artistry, and weapons and armor are quite complicated and advanced however, and the materials they use are second to none.

Humanity : Westwall and Mankind are as with most things, in the center of the tree, neither backwards nor advanced, they vary based on geography.
With the rangers of the dark pines often adopting goblin and dwarven tech like firearms, and the folks of westwall working close with the dwarves when it comes to things like architecture and plumbing systems.

Ultimately, at the second era the Men of Westwall are somewhere within the later dark ages.
Overall their weapons and armor lean towards the high middle ages, between 1000 -1300 AD.
By the end of the second war they are on par with the dwarves

Eastern Orcs:
Eastern Orcs are the most technologically advanced race of orcs, this is owed to their slavery of goblins and abundant resources.
On their own the orcs have weapons and armor crafting equal to the late middle ages
often wearing full plate and armed with great zweihander swords

Most if not all of their advancements are in their traditional realm of weaponry, they rarely change their route but instead simply advance their methods.

Dwarves:
Dwarves are one of the most technologically advanced species of Westwall, their most important invention, the firearm, vastly changes the landscape of war near the end of the second war.
At the start of the war the tech exists but is scarce and underutilized.
The Arquebus is the favoured weapon of dwarven rifleman, though the dwarves are highly advanced in many ways, the core dwarf race is highly conservative and proud.
Despite their advancements they still rely on the old ways, with hammer and axe still being most preferred by dwarven warriors over the relatively new firearms.
With their bolt throwers generally being far more popular than the rifle.

The mighty sailing ships of the dwarves gives them unparalleled trade opportunity, only increasing their access to global technologies.

War Goblins:
The War Goblins are the most curious case of technological progress, having the technological sense of their cove forebears but possessing an innate insanity bred into them by the orcs.
Their advancements are inconsistent and random, with some of their inventions being beyond most other races but not consistent enough to be considered on par with the Cove Goblins.

At the beginning of the second war the Goblins have access to unique tools like the jackhammer, within the midst they employed the use of the flamethrower, and by the end of the war had adapted the Goblin gatling gun into the machine gun

Goblins:
The goblins of the cove have always been far beyond the other races of westwall in technology, but they shined their brightest during the second war.

During the second war they used the crank gatling gun to defend the cove, and ultimately ended up selling such weapons to the other species of westwall, all but fueling the war's escalation.

Later they adapted the dwarven rifle into the single handed pistol, which would become a staple of the rangers of westwall, and goblin negotiations afterwards.

The goblins being considered the center of trade and commerce fueled their inventiveness for the sake of their great greed.
Goblins, like the ogres, did not take a direct part in the second great war, instead fueling the war by arming the other races and selling technologies and weapons.

Taking care to never give one side a huge advantage, the goblins would prefer to prolong the conflict, indeed never had the goblins seen greater prosperity than the otherwise devastating great war. With the sight of goblin steam ships being very common along almost all trade routes.

Due to geography, the goblins did eventually put their chips on the orcs winning the war, which only improved their prosperity.

Ogres:
The Ogres of the mighty Ogre Dome of the frozen north dominated the second great war as the most technologically advanced race.
The Ogres, like the goblins, are not considered to have taken part directly in the second great war.
However this is not true, although they did not directly ally with a faction, Ogre launched several secret campaigns across different territories, to plunder and colonize territory for slaves and resources.
As well during the conflict they all but established dominance of the northern continent, with the once mighty race of Northmen living in complete fear of their ogre neighbors by the war's end.

Ogre technology did not reach it's peak until the later stages of the war, when they staged surprise attacks on several minor factions such as the cyclops temple of the south lands, The mysterious blood orcs of the primeval forests(A new land previously undiscovered by the other races), and generally causing much chaos in the north, establishing trade through force with all of the major races and establishing embassies within Westwall and The Goblin Cove.

When the ogres did finally invade, they did so with a fleet of mighty airships and boats, armed with handheld cannons and supported by artillery balloons

During the second war the ogres never did need to engage in an all out war, instead using the Black Fleet to intimidate others into submission.
With smaller forces of ogres engaging in skirmishes and massacres, they took a subdued approach, refusing to commit to a side even as the orcs ravaged through the land
By the end of the war the twisted eugenics of the ogre had yielded much fruit in the form of monstrous broodmothers which would breed troops for their reign of terror in massive numbers, and lumbering super soldiers of monstrous proportions.

The Ogres decided, only at the latest stage of the war, to make an alliance with the humans of westwall.
This bid unlike the goblins proved a failure, or at least it did on the surface. In reality the ogres used the alliance to implant themselves into human society, and when the war was at it's end they fled en mass, in the meantime having harvested all the human slaves they could manage.

At the start of the war the ogres had less than half their numbers in slaves, by the end of the war the slave population outnumbered their ogre masters tenfold.

As Westwall fell the ogres retreated unto their ships, taking many fleeing refugees of westwall with them back to the north.
Due to their alliance the orcs launched a small skirmish into the north.

The harsh climate was difficult for the orcs to make progress and before they so much as reached the dome, the ogres met them on the tundra, the orcish forces being face to face to the pinnacle of the ogre's labours in the mammoth tank, an armoured artillery before the orcs armoured in plate and armed with sword and axe.
After this battle the orcs signed a peace treaty with the ogres, as did the other races of westwall.

----

In summary, this is the level of technology of the different races, and a little insight into how they utilized these weapons their advantage in the great war.

Westwall, ultimately has always been centered around the second great war, but eventually I plan to do a campaign set in the distant future, when the drums of war begin again.
(I mean we can't really end on such a dour note can we..)

See more works from the setting of Westwall here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

See more of the brutal and bloodthirsty orcs here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

See more of the grotesque ogres here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Support the races of humanity here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Behold the glory of Elven and Fae kind here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Uncover the machinations of the sly goblin here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

The Stalwart Dwarves dwell eternally in their mountain homes here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Description
It's the year 2016 and I've just uploaded a jpeg of a War Goblin armed with a flame thrower and one of my dedicated watchers Kaitoraikan (One of about 30 watchers back then) is highly confused at the idea 😂

And then I asked myself, what era is Westwall set in anyway? What is the technological age that the setting takes place in?
The answer??? nearly 8 years later???...
It varies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The original and first story of Westwall was set in the SECOND GREAT WAR, though since then I've explored both forward and backward in time to different levels of advancement.

Overall: The setting features elements of dark age and medieval culture and society, by the beginning of the second war inventions like the firearm are new concepts. The second great war fuels an arms race that pushes technology forward at lightning speed fueled by the greed of goblins and ogres, by the end of the war some races have technology equal to 1940s earth
So that will be our basis: During the second great war the tech varied primarily by species and location.

From left to right:
Pale Orcs: The pale orcs live like hunter gatherers, though their weapons crafted in the black forge are the exception, their homes, lifestyle, and general tech level remains at the level of hunter gatherer.
The Pale Orcs have a strong sense of consistency and efficiency, they do not do anything that would cause weakness to grow in their small population, never settle lands, are purely nomadic, and have a sense of balance that keeps them from wanting more than the basic standard of living.

ElvenKind: (Sometimes called AelvenKind to sound less generic and also tie them to other fae species)
The elves do not use weaponry like firearms, and have no reliance on machinery.
Due to their high magical affinity in an otherwise low magic world, elves are simply not interested in most forms of technology, are highly traditionalist, and do not respect the creations of non Elven species.

They consider the sight of pollution from machinery to be a blight and moral failing tied to an innate inferiority in the lesser species.
Seeing in them a need to overcompensate for their lesser nature with tools.

Their architecture, artistry, and weapons and armor are quite complicated and advanced however, and the materials they use are second to none.

Humanity : Westwall and Mankind are as with most things, in the center of the tree, neither backwards nor advanced, they vary based on geography.
With the rangers of the dark pines often adopting goblin and dwarven tech like firearms, and the folks of westwall working close with the dwarves when it comes to things like architecture and plumbing systems.

Ultimately, at the second era the Men of Westwall are somewhere within the later dark ages.
Overall their weapons and armor lean towards the high middle ages, between 1000 -1300 AD.
By the end of the second war they are on par with the dwarves

Eastern Orcs:
Eastern Orcs are the most technologically advanced race of orcs, this is owed to their slavery of goblins and abundant resources.
On their own the orcs have weapons and armor crafting equal to the late middle ages
often wearing full plate and armed with great zweihander swords

Most if not all of their advancements are in their traditional realm of weaponry, they rarely change their route but instead simply advance their methods.

Dwarves:
Dwarves are one of the most technologically advanced species of Westwall, their most important invention, the firearm, vastly changes the landscape of war near the end of the second war.
At the start of the war the tech exists but is scarce and underutilized.
The Arquebus is the favoured weapon of dwarven rifleman, though the dwarves are highly advanced in many ways, the core dwarf race is highly conservative and proud.
Despite their advancements they still rely on the old ways, with hammer and axe still being most preferred by dwarven warriors over the relatively new firearms.
With their bolt throwers generally being far more popular than the rifle.

The mighty sailing ships of the dwarves gives them unparalleled trade opportunity, only increasing their access to global technologies.

War Goblins:
The War Goblins are the most curious case of technological progress, having the technological sense of their cove forebears but possessing an innate insanity bred into them by the orcs.
Their advancements are inconsistent and random, with some of their inventions being beyond most other races but not consistent enough to be considered on par with the Cove Goblins.

At the beginning of the second war the Goblins have access to unique tools like the jackhammer, within the midst they employed the use of the flamethrower, and by the end of the war had adapted the Goblin gatling gun into the machine gun

Goblins:
The goblins of the cove have always been far beyond the other races of westwall in technology, but they shined their brightest during the second war.

During the second war they used the crank gatling gun to defend the cove, and ultimately ended up selling such weapons to the other species of westwall, all but fueling the war's escalation.

Later they adapted the dwarven rifle into the single handed pistol, which would become a staple of the rangers of westwall, and goblin negotiations afterwards.

The goblins being considered the center of trade and commerce fueled their inventiveness for the sake of their great greed.
Goblins, like the ogres, did not take a direct part in the second great war, instead fueling the war by arming the other races and selling technologies and weapons.

Taking care to never give one side a huge advantage, the goblins would prefer to prolong the conflict, indeed never had the goblins seen greater prosperity than the otherwise devastating great war. With the sight of goblin steam ships being very common along almost all trade routes.

Due to geography, the goblins did eventually put their chips on the orcs winning the war, which only improved their prosperity.

Ogres:
The Ogres of the mighty Ogre Dome of the frozen north dominated the second great war as the most technologically advanced race.
The Ogres, like the goblins, are not considered to have taken part directly in the second great war.
However this is not true, although they did not directly ally with a faction, Ogre launched several secret campaigns across different territories, to plunder and colonize territory for slaves and resources.
As well during the conflict they all but established dominance of the northern continent, with the once mighty race of Northmen living in complete fear of their ogre neighbors by the war's end.

Ogre technology did not reach it's peak until the later stages of the war, when they staged surprise attacks on several minor factions such as the cyclops temple of the south lands, The mysterious blood orcs of the primeval forests(A new land previously undiscovered by the other races), and generally causing much chaos in the north, establishing trade through force with all of the major races and establishing embassies within Westwall and The Goblin Cove.

When the ogres did finally invade, they did so with a fleet of mighty airships and boats, armed with handheld cannons and supported by artillery balloons

During the second war the ogres never did need to engage in an all out war, instead using the Black Fleet to intimidate others into submission.
With smaller forces of ogres engaging in skirmishes and massacres, they took a subdued approach, refusing to commit to a side even as the orcs ravaged through the land
By the end of the war the twisted eugenics of the ogre had yielded much fruit in the form of monstrous broodmothers which would breed troops for their reign of terror in massive numbers, and lumbering super soldiers of monstrous proportions.

The Ogres decided, only at the latest stage of the war, to make an alliance with the humans of westwall.
This bid unlike the goblins proved a failure, or at least it did on the surface. In reality the ogres used the alliance to implant themselves into human society, and when the war was at it's end they fled en mass, in the meantime having harvested all the human slaves they could manage.

At the start of the war the ogres had less than half their numbers in slaves, by the end of the war the slave population outnumbered their ogre masters tenfold.

As Westwall fell the ogres retreated unto their ships, taking many fleeing refugees of westwall with them back to the north.
Due to their alliance the orcs launched a small skirmish into the north.

The harsh climate was difficult for the orcs to make progress and before they so much as reached the dome, the ogres met them on the tundra, the orcish forces being face to face to the pinnacle of the ogre's labours in the mammoth tank, an armoured artillery before the orcs armoured in plate and armed with sword and axe.
After this battle the orcs signed a peace treaty with the ogres, as did the other races of westwall.

----

In summary, this is the level of technology of the different races, and a little insight into how they utilized these weapons their advantage in the great war.

Westwall, ultimately has always been centered around the second great war, but eventually I plan to do a campaign set in the distant future, when the drums of war begin again.
(I mean we can't really end on such a dour note can we..)

See more works from the setting of Westwall here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

See more of the brutal and bloodthirsty orcs here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

See more of the grotesque ogres here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Support the races of humanity here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Behold the glory of Elven and Fae kind here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

Uncover the machinations of the sly goblin here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…

The Stalwart Dwarves dwell eternally in their mountain homes here:
www.deviantart.com/onholyservi…