>Bronze is very different from the _runic_ metals, by all the accounts.
>Air/Storm is one of the five major elements, so it should have a _runic_
>metal attributed to it.
It has three, by my reckoning as does sky. Thus I can't see what is so intricate or convoluted about having tin as one of the sky metals or why you should twist around what I said.
>Bronze is a remarkable metal in the _mundane_ sense
Mikko, you originally claimed Bronze cannot be a storm metal because it was commonplace and a workingman's metal. Then when it came to being a special metal for Orlanth (the source of which I had not seen before), it somehow became remarkable. If anything, I would have thought Orlanth would not be associated with bronze for he is the king of gods and all that.
Now could you explain your reasoning please?
>I just feel it's nice to have a neat and sensible table for the truest
>metals for the elements, and not have Storm as the dumping ground.
>Something that was never tought out properly.
I really don't see how the current scheme treats Storm as a dumping ground. The relationship of bronze to storm (both being the product of sky and earth) is one of the cleverer analogies in Elder Secrets.
>"Air was the last of the great elements born in Godtime to make the
>world." - Wyrms Footprints, Gods of Storm p 64. So calling Umath a young
>god is pretty far fetched.
He still is a young god in the standard understanding of the world - i.e. being born during the Golden Age.
--Peter Metcalfe
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