From: SIMONBRAYUK_at_aol.com
>There are salt pans and plains north of Laca in Dagori Inkarth. One
>of the major exports of the Argangsters of that most peculiar Troll city is
>salt. It is mined (by scraping off the surface and loading it on to Beetle
>Wagons)
So they don't have to dig for it? Or rather, I suppose since these are trolls, they do
already have tunnels going to it.
> by hordes of trollking slaves. Occasionally the preserved remains of
>ancient aquatic creatures are found and devoured by the hungry wretches, they
>also do a good job of cleaning up the mess that results of Mobster / Argangster
>whackings. More information on the region will be coming out soon in
>the next Tentacles Con Book, and the Unspoken Word is also developing the
>location as a gaming setting.
Cool. Good to hear.
From: CJ <cj_at_falster23.freeserve.co.uk>
> Completely off topic, but why was salt related to domesticated animals?
>I'm curious now!
I see someone else answered this. Animals need salt, and when you restrict where they can feed, it requires giving them salt directly.
>As I recall the Roamn Army paid wages sometimes in salt, hence salary.
Yes.
>Er, I was trying to think of Lunar salt sources? I can see the Wastes
>as having huge expanses of surface salt however, and being an ideal
>source.
Would they? Are the Wastes salt?
>the Heortling Coast will provide most of Sartars needs I would
>have thought,
I'm not sure it would though. I presume MirrorSea bay is Salt, so there could be salt traps along the coast. But it isn't easy to ship inland. Celts traditonally mined salt straight out of mountain sides. (Using bronze tools so they wouldn't corrode like Iron would. There's GOT to be something useful to make of that mythically.) Still, I am sure there are salt ponds near Nochet. Vienna became rich due to being a salt trader, so at least one major port city should have major access to salt.
>and anyway I can also sea salt as mythic dried tears of
>the Godtime, so I guess you might find deposits all over the place.
>Salt has historically been symbolically linked with Truth and Mourning
>- a very Humakti substance, but I am drawing on Biblical sources, not
>Gloranthan ones. Anyone got any ideas on the mythic qualities of salt?
Salt was also viewed as pure. It preserves, giving it a link with immortality. (This is multicultural.)
LC
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