Ironing Uz

From: Pasanen Panu <passo_at_students.cc.tut.fi>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:24:15 +0200 (EET)


> a way to escape. On of them had an interesting idea : "why not poisoning
> some food with iron and it to the Bad Uz?". And it made me think about what

 Just as workable as poisoning your human capturers with salt. They taste  it... and Uz smell it. And how come anyone captured by Uz has any food?-)

> is that in iron that make more damage on them? It cannot be just the iron
> (the Fe atom) because Uz are rock eaters and there are a lot of rocks that
> contains Fe atoms. And the blood of humanz contains Fe also. I thought that

 Oh.. I recall that Mostali _made_ iron for warfare. Also, some wargods  bones were iron, if I recall it right.. they propably cheated some iron  from the stupid midgets. Or offered protection or whatever. I have  no idea how any ordinary human would have gotten any Iron into his  blood in Glorantha, surely not from his food!

> Chromium, aluminium of even lead!! and that the contact with iron causes a
> blood poisoning particularly damaging. And that eating rocks or event pur
> iron is not dangerous for Uz (as long as they don't have a cut in the
> mouth) The rock stomach can easily digest the Fe atoms like any other
> components of the rocks.

 Uz blood is made of uzblood stuff. That's it. It is propably lots of  darker than human blood, and I believe the veins are deeper than human  veins for the extreme cold climates uz so much love. There are certainly  no _metals_ innit! Otherwise every adventurer would boil an uz he just  killed for the precious pieces of metal. I don't want Praxians start  boiling dead trolls for metal.  

> seems a little bit to scientific for a Gloranthan creature but Uz are flesh
> and blood like us, aren't they? Everything is of course IMHO. No flame please.

 Uz consist of body (eat-matta) and uzpart (soul). Soul is made of some  lead, spiderweb, and darkness. Eat-matta is mostly mud and stuff like  that, just better tasting. For more info, check out Trollpak.  There is somekind of creation myth there, too. No metals involved.

 Panu Pasanen.


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