Me>>_If_ you assume that bronze in modern glorantha is just as difficult
>>to work and extract as the RW bronze age cultures.
>As easy to work and extract, you mean? The bummer for the bronze age was the
>distance the ore had to travel. Bronze is a lot easier to work and produce
>than iron.
To get hold of is what I meant. One required tin which could only be found in two places in europe (Bohemia and Cornwall). This restricted the available metal to such an extent that bronze age armies had very little metal artefacts compared to the armies of the iron age.
>>But IMO there has
>>been a major increase in the amount of bronze used by glorantha over
>>the years to the extent that it has become as cheaply available as
>>iron was in the Iron Age.
>As I recently was told by a smith working with experimental archaeologists,
>in that case your average stead would have one or two knives and one axe. It
>takes huge amounts of your average "grassy" iron ore found alongside river
>valleys to produce small amounts of iron, and as huge amounts of charcoal
>and work. And then the iron is likely to be of a quality little better than
>bad bronze.
But prior to this, your average hedebysque stead would have been lucky if it had something like a bronze knife. Thus they wouldn't have been able to cut down trees at any significant rate.
Trevor Browne:
>I am still however not happy with the western knights. I can accept that
>the west is technologically more advanced, sorcerers being more logical or
>scientific etc. but is the knights armour made from the more easily worked
>Gloranthan bronze or are we to assume that the jointed plate armour of the
>illustrations is Iron armour. IMO the later is more feasible.
What is wrong with them being smithed from bronze? After all bronze is not the RW bronze but an analogous metal.
Me>>The inquisitive, intelligent or(?) well educated in the RW have
>>tended towards the study of magic and religion until modern times.
>No offense intended Peter but you're surely not trying to suggest that
>intelligence and education are somehow inexorably linked.
No. I was wondering why you apparently considered these categories to be mutually exclusive.
>One last point does anyone else think it sounds more likely that the lunars
>built a trading port in a marsh, on the most inhospitable frontier of their
>empire, to trade iron with Seshnela than Grain with Esrolia.
The Lunar Empire does not need grain from Esrolia.
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