Re: A sense of scale

From: David Dunham <david_at_6BN5e470I8Y6y1nBL2jos9JkReqZSBi9LaTkzlTLXlDY8sdM-twvovSflr6miwwA5SWerN>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:01 -0800

On 12 Nov 2011, at 05:09, orlanthumathi wrote:

> So now look at Glorantha, it doesn't look like the Iron Age. Even the big empires don't see iron as a cheap and transformable metal. It's rare and used for very specific things. It looks like a super bronze age. With specialist artisans fashioning weapons from unusual metals.

I usually picture Glorantha as being roughly Iron Age, only with the metal being Gloranthan bronze. Not an exact analogy, of course, but overall that seems to be where technology is.

David Dunham
Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html