...wresting silent nuisances from the unforgiving Earth to be shipped to the Cult of silence.
John Hughes wrote:
>
> I note that redsmiths are bronze workers. If iron/gold/silver/tin etc.
> working is a cult secret, I imagine we need super-specialist subcults
> for
> each pantheon. Who works iron for the Heortlings? Humakti and Orlanthi
> ironsmiths? What about silver and tin the other air-linked metals.
Ironsmithing is either for outlander specialists like Third Eye Blue cults or for Humakti smiths. But most of the time, I think a bronze smith can work with other material but much of his magic won't. But on the whole, metalworking is metalworking. Many of the techniques used on various metals are _somewhat_ interchangable so you can get away with using an improvisation penalty on your <metal>working.
I prefer to just have a metalworking skill and have done with the uncertainty. I base the resistance to "metalworking" on just how tough the material is to being crafted and just how complex the desired result is. Iron, naturally, is near the top of the scale.
Jewelers and the like are probably specialist Issaries or Orlanth or Ernalda crafter subcult types? Or there's a cult of some godling that handles that sort of work.
I am sure there was a jeweler and cunning metal worker for the Storm Tribe, but it could have been Gustbran -- afterall Hesphastos was a very, very good jeweler, if I remember my stories right.
> (Is it tin or silver for air these days? its been changed back and
> forth so
> often I get confused)
Both.
Would you buy a used falangian diamond from this man? And gem/mineral extraction is yet _another_ kettle of mine-tailings.
Jeff
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