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>To further aid the nation's defence, the artificers of Grand
Cathay turned their ingenuity to the creation of many great
machines of war, whilst alchemists worked to concoct a means
to power them. To this end, the Cathayans discovered the
secrets of black powder before even the Dwarfs of the Worlds
Edge Mountains. Indeed, and though no Dwarf would admit
it, black powder made in Grand Cathay is considered the
finest in all the known world.
Arcane Journal, page 10