Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170108024434/@comment-1674153-20170108053034

This reminded me I've had an artifact from the eruption of Krakatoa on the back burner for a year or so. I should get on that, but the vast scale of the eruption is what tempers me.

Regardless, however, isn't the the thing about artifacts that they were born from the meeting of a time and a feeling? I'm all for artifacts from other planets (I've created one or two), but I will say that you run into trouble justifying the effects if there is no human emotion captured in the electromagnetism magic that artifacts possess. The oldest canon artifact we see is a prehistoric jawbone that was possessed by human fear.

And that's not to say that animals couldn't create artifacts, we have a few examples of those.

You'll also run into trouble trying to make an artifact over Pangea splitting, not only because no one could be emotionally invested in it until geoscience advanced to see it (and it's so huge that honestly, what would the artifact even be? Alfred Wegener's Globe?), and the actual process took a very long time. Canines being domesticated could be interesting as a base for an idea between the bonding of humans and animals, but domestication is a word we use now for the general idea - defining the beginning of canine domestication is a little squirrely.