Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-31327322-20170307104219/@comment-4010415-20170307114511

Where our world's humans had to figure out how to make fire for themselves, once the humans of Remnant found out about Dust, they could just grab a crystal of fire Dust and will some fire into existence by using their Aura to channel the fire energy from the crystal.

Where our world's humans had to discover how to harness electricity and devise machines to generate it, the humans of Remnant probably just had to make machines that would trigger lightning Dust and use the electricity that spawns from that. After all, powdered Dust can more easily release its energy just from being disturbed, even by something as simple as a sneeze.

Where our world's humans had to discover a way to invent a machine that generates cold air for refrigerating and freezing food, the people of Remnant probably just found a way to make a machine that would trigger ice Dust and use that to cool food.

Due to them having a very different multi-purpose fuel source, compared to our coal and oil, their technology evolved in a very different way from ours. And like Spirit said, they live in a world where they're constantly at war with the Grimm and thus had to advance their technology a lot more quickly. In our world, technology and medicine tends to advance a lot more quickly during times of war, but the people of Remnant are practically always at war with the Grimm. Not only did they have to develop better, more efficient ways of defending strongholds and killing Grimm, they've also had to develop better ways to simply live their lives in safety.