"As you get more clever at breeding plants, you can, to some degree, even in dath ilan without magic, manage to do a bit more damage than if you were less clever.  If you successfully use focused breeding to create corn that is incredibly resistant to the most common diseases around, more disease-resistant than any corn has ever been before, it is more likely than regular corn to take over all your other fields by accident."

"If you breed ultra-fast-growing plants and plant them repeatedly on the same land, year after year, they will suck key nutrients out of the soil, unless you figure out what those nutrients are and take extra steps to replenish them.  Even if you figure out how to provide the plants with the nutrients that they need to keep growing, they may end up less nutritious for people, or animals, who eat those plants, unless you replenish aspects of the soil that aren't as obvious.  Subtle deficiencies that people may not notice at first, especially if people are eating the older crops too, for a while.  If you figure out how to fix the short-term problem of your fast-growing crops dying, by replenishing the aspects of soil that just the plants need, you may not replenish enough of key tiny nutrients that people need.  Praying for guidance sure would be helpful for that sort of thing, if it worked perfectly reliably.  But even leaving aside the point that apparently 'prophecy is broken' now, it seems wiser for you to try to develop the skill that we needed in godless dath ilan - like, at least write down in advance what you predict the guidance will be, before you pray for guidance."

"As you get more clever at breeding plants, you can, to some degree, even in dath ilan without magic, manage to do a bit more damage than if you were less clever.  If you successfully use focused breeding to create corn that is incredibly resistant to the most common diseases around, more disease-resistant than any corn has ever been before, it may be more likely than regular corn to take over all your other fields by accident."

"If you breed ultra-fast-growing plants and plant them repeatedly on the same land, year after year, they will suck key nutrients out of the soil, unless you figure out what those nutrients are and take extra steps to replenish them.  Even if you figure out how to provide the plants with the nutrients that they need to keep growing, they may end up less nutritious for people, or animals, who eat those plants, unless you replenish aspects of the soil that aren't as obvious.  Subtle deficiencies that people may not notice at first, especially if people are eating the older crops too, for a while.  If you figure out how to fix the short-term problem of your fast-growing crops dying, by replenishing the aspects of soil that just the plants need, you may not replenish enough of key tiny nutrients that people need.  Praying for guidance sure would be helpful for that sort of thing, if it worked perfectly reliably.  But even leaving aside the point that apparently 'prophecy is broken' now, it seems wiser for you to try to develop the skill that we needed in godless dath ilan - like, at least write down in advance what you predict the guidance will be, before you pray for guidance."

"As you get more clever at breeding plants, you can, to some degree, even in dath ilan without magic, manage to do a bit more damage than if you were less clever.  If you successfully use focused breeding to create corn that is incredibly resistant to the most common diseases around, more disease-resistant than any corn has ever been before, it may be more likely than regular corn to take over all your other fields by accident."

"If you breed ultra-fast-growing plants and plant them repeatedly on the same land, year after year, they will suck key nutrients out of the soil, unless you figure out what those nutrients are and take extra steps to replenish them.  Even if you figure out how to provide the plants with the nutrients that they need to keep growing, the fast-grown plants may end up less nutritious for people, or animals, who eat those plants - unless you replenish aspects of the soil that aren't as obvious.  Subtle deficiencies that people may not notice at first, especially if people are eating the older crops too, for a while.  If you figure out how to fix the short-term problem of your fast-growing crops dying, by replenishing the aspects of soil that just the plants need, you may not replenish enough of key tiny nutrients that people need.  Praying for guidance sure would be helpful for that sort of thing, if it worked perfectly reliably.  But even leaving aside the point that apparently 'prophecy is broken' now, it seems wiser for you to try to develop the skill that we needed in godless dath ilan - like, at least write down in advance what you predict the guidance will be, before you pray for guidance."