In ebil China, people are forbidden from learning about the crimes of their government…

Thankfully we don’t have that kind of brainwashing here !

Counterpoint : French aren’t people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TezByKmNVXE

I’m actually thinking about including this in my current worldbuilding project. In my universe, dwarves have a particular talent for enchanting magic, runes and wards. This allows them to create advanced pieces of machinery that would otherwise be impossible.

They use this magic to create a dedicated headgear for their musketeers, which includes hearing protection, flash protection, air filtering, and enhanced night vision. There’s a whole sub-story about those headgears evolving into basically power armors over the decades, to the point that they eventually become too over-enginereed and expensive to be actually viable in warfare.

In addition, after a certain point in development, only mages could actually use those armors. This led to the muskets being modified to channel magic too, thus they couldn’t be used by a normal dwarf anymore either.

My world is more in a Pike and Shot era militarily speaking, as there isn’t magic capable of blowing up formations, artillery is still too primitive to do a lot of damage, and magic beasts like dragons maintain the usefulness of dedicated pikemen formations.