A quick comment:
>> weapons. They just aren't that likely to ever collect enough furs to
>> achieve those ambitions. Others may be in some sort of spiritual balance
>> with nature. It just depends on the Odalyan, I would guess.
>I would assume that if such a person took up fuur-trapping full time
>for sale purposes, they would in effect be coming down from the
>mountain. They are soon goign to run into the ususal problems -
>stock storage, keeping your earned weqlth safe, etc, all of which
>will tend to bind them back into "orthodox" Heortling society.
To use the "mountain-men" analogy once again (see, it does have its uses
John:)), it is unlikely that the Odaylan handles the "business aspect" of
fur-trading. Instead, he would probably trade his furs to a local merchant
in exchange for *stuff*.
Jeff