Quote Originally Posted by Bad_Luck View Post
Bearing in mind that most technological advances in-game are generally the result of prior civilizations' discoveries over several thousand years or more...but also regularly occurring cataclysmic events. Meh, I dunno. There was definitely a bit of retention, but there was also a lot of time.
You could expand on this. post sundering the human life span was reduced greatly.. so that would play a big part in the retention of knowledge... how do you pass down a thousand years of knowledge onto someone whos only going to live 100 years and still leave them time to teach the next person and so on...

time would indeed become a major factor.

there's also bee nvarious plot points where a lot of that information has been retained or preserved but what is lost is the knowledge or means to access it.