Me>> Given that a major elf bandit of the inhuman occupation >> was one saw-tooth Korvan (Cults Compendium p199), >> the prospect that Heortlings don't know what saws are >> strikes me as ludricrous.
> Peter, it seems silly to me to use this as evidence of
> technology. Do you really believe that Greg (or whomever
> came up with Korvan) was thinking about metal tool
> technology when he named the rouge elf that?
Whether he thought about it is irrelevant. It is evidence that Saws are known off in Dragon Pass just as the Orlanthi myths can be used to trace Orlanthi technological sophistication over mythical ages.
>I thought the practice of teasing sense out of gloranthan >poetical references had been disproven a decade ago.
It has?
--Peter Metcalfe
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