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Hidden 7 yrs ago Post by WrongEndoftheRainbow
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<Snipped quote by Muttonhawk>

I feel the need to note that Dabbles doesn't have hands either.

at least not on his arms.

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It's not me with the fetish though?? It's @WrongEndOfTheRainbow this was all his idea


I'll have you know you started it by using your arm to fling ice and shit at albe okay
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i feel like the pronobii are so used to getting manhandled by the other races of Galbar, that a couple of broken/ripped-from-their-sockets arms are not gonna do much more than's already been done


I mean, Omicron never even had arms to start with, and Sampi never had legs (but has six five arms), and Upsilon has four legs and one arm, and all of them were personally hand-crafted by Jvan, so...

yeah. I think they'll be fine.
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@WrongEndoftheRainbow YOU COULD HAVE JUST PUNCHED HER

BUT NO

ALBE'S STOMACH WAS MAKING THE RUMBLIES

THAT ONLY HANDS COULD SATISFY
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THAT ONLY HANDS COULD SATISFY


Oh boy, that gave me a bit of the nostalgia
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'...Vulamera, Belruarc, Vowzra, Vakarlon, all had very clear demises...'
When Illunabar talked with Toun


Oddly enough Belruarc is (presumably, as far as anyone is concerned) dead at this point, as this conversation takes place who knows how long after the Realta invasion and the destruction of the Temple of the Bond. But at the time the post was written, she was alive and kicking!

Which can only mean one thing.

Capy is the Doctor.



'You see Watson, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

Edit: roleplayerguild.com/posts/4287200 this was a very good post. I particularly enjoyed the pre-worldbuilding discussion between Heartworm and Lazarus.
Poor dwarves suffering from PTSD and who knows what else.
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@Antarctic Termite damn, you're pressing all the buttons on this fine morn. This post brought a smile to my face and a wave of nostalgia. Something about Achozaal being mentioned I think.

Also also also, both the terms 'Kho' and 'Antarctic termite' have found their way into the IC xDD we're part of the Divinus canon FOREVER xD

Edit: Just read this: roleplayerguild.com/posts/4326869 and it brought a few questions to mind @Cyclone. Can djinnis feed on anything other than Flickers/other djinnis? On sunlight and dust and whatnot for instance? Let alone Niciel's Wisps.

Edit 2: Also, read a few posts that insist the Pronobii are extinct or close to it. They are not. They survived in Chronos and continue to live in New Chronos.
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Edit 2: Also, read a few posts that insist the Pronobii are extinct or close to it. They are not. They survived in Chronos and continue to live in New Chronos.


I noticed this! Keep reading, it soon becomes relevant.
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Three days overdue, but here it is.

GROTLING RAVE


Important tech update: with the intersection of Sculptor alchemy, Grotling metal-bending, Alefprian technology and necessity born of being one of the only major metal-dependent civs nowhere near the Ironhearts and with no other sources of cheap bronze a la dwarves, the Marquisate has developed Galbar's first steel. In time, it will be exported to surrounding Metatic civilisations.

Edit: edited, now with bad jokes in right-aligned text

ed ed: I think I'm done with the proofreading now, sorry to all Polish people out there
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Where are the grotlings supposed to be located? There's thus far been zero canonized ogre-grotling contact, though presumably some extent happens and it just has yet to be shown IC. As per my understanding Vestec left them isolated in the Venomweald, specifically the western part near the Golden Barrens and Rukbany rather than the eastern part of the Venomweald that's controlled by Omokog.

But it's suggested otherwise by the fact that Tauga is running around in there as well as this line,

Tauganactsa develop a way to use the Metatic monsoon winds to power furnaces hot enough to create Galbar's first crucible steel. This finally gives the islands a truly competitive alternative to bronze.


Hard to get Metatic monsoon winds if you're on the other side of the Ironheart range and then there's probably another thousand miles beyond that just for good measure.
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@Antarctic Termite Does't Iron/Wrought Iron come after Bronze? Methinks you skipped a step there...
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Hard to get Metatic monsoon winds if you're on the other side of the Ironheart range and then there's probably another thousand miles beyond that just for good measure.


The Marquisate is located in the dead center of the Metatic. She's importing Grotlings to her islands, presumably by longboat, submaterium and cloud whale, and that's where the technology is developing.

Where are the grotlings supposed to be located?


¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rtron and I had a vague plan to make them highly mobile Black Labyrinth pirates as soon as shadow tunnel trading convoys developed a little more, but we never went into much depth.

I should've developed the Grotling/labyrinth relationship more in this post but lbr here I'm absolutely smashed rn

@Rtron also how many groups are there of each tribe? please no more than one or two of like 50-100 each I don't think this planet can take more than a thousand magic-capable murderbots they're six god damn metres tall
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@Vec Not necessarily.

Marquisate already had wrought iron anyway, though.

ed: also bear in mind that wrought iron isn't actually superior to bronze, especially when bronze technology is highly refined, and iron is just starting out. Cast iron is even worse. Iron just happens to be a) easier to find as ore and b) harder to get from ore.

ed ed, fug u: also also bear in mind that steel cannot replace wrought iron. It takes far too long to produce, and in the Marquisate case, can only be produced in a specific season to boot. Wrought iron will still be the material of choice for Marquisan tools, structures, ships, mechanisms and whatnot, and bronze won't be phased out either. Steel will be used for specific applications where the extra strength is actually necessary to produce an item at all, such as the longsword and sabre.
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Aside from the relative difficulty in finding both tin and copper as Termite alluded to, bronze is also heavier than iron and more prone to bending. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; because bronze is heavier it's suitable for weapons like warhammers and axes because it'd give them more heft and cutting/smashing power, and a dull axe will still fuck you up. It does make bronze almost objectively inferior for armor, though, and bronze swords don't hold their edges well and are more prone to bending than iron or steel ones.

Make no mistake, at this point (and until metallurgy becomes a lot more advanced and widespread, perhaps at a 1200-1300s tech era) steel production would be so limited in scale and time consumption that only the wealthy would be able to have access to it.
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fun fact about grotling size: a grotling on a fully grown triceratops would resemble an adult human riding a small pony, and they could only possibly ride the very largest tyrannosaurs.

these things are TOO DAMN BIG

ed: Tauga's request for fifteen straight swords in five weeks was meant to be outlandishly over the top, just to give that metal bender the challenge he seemed to be asking for. It might be more feasible since he has magic, though, idk.
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look, im not saying that Tauga can't have her steel swords, its just that it seems a little weird that the dwarves don't even have steel right now, the dwarves let's think about that for a moment...

but an island in the middle of the sea with no nearby source of iron or tin was able to develop steel...

i dunno...

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@Vec The dwarves have a cheap source of bronze, which is superior to the prerequisites for steel. They've never had a need. Though, if things go to plan, they might have a need soon.
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I was thinking of my domain being fear, and my portfolio the unknown. As in fear of the new, different, unknown. Is that too broad?
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but an island in the middle of the sea with no nearby source of iron


Dude, iron is everywhere. It's 5% of the crust by weight.

If Japan, Sri Lanka and the British Isles all had sufficient iron ore lying around, which they do, and Galbar is anything like Earth, which it is, then you can be damn sure there's iron in the Metatic islands too. Especially considering that they were canonically raised by earthquake, and as such aren't just made of lava.

the dwarves let's think about that for a moment...


i spend fifty four thousand characters trying to make the 'dwarves' as different as humanly possible from the Extruded Fantasy Product dwarves

and this is how you repay me

you mock me, Vec

i'm wounded
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just cause they haven't had a need for it doesn't mean that they would not experiment. They are dwarves for gods' sake, they drink, sleep, eat, mine, and forge metals. Not necessarily in that order. Just the fact that they are living literally inside a gigantic mountain made from a dead God's corpse, which is prolly one of the most precious things in the Universe, gives them a definite edge over all other races on Galbar when it comes to metalworking. That they are behind in that field of technology is akin to squandering potential.

Also, just cause they are metal-depended doesn't mean that they should just be magically given steel when it was their choice to move into an island in the middle of the ocean... why should we reward bad decisions?

PS: Bah, do what you want, im just speaking my mind here. I am prolly the last person to speak about any developments on Galbar, seeing as i've done basically nothing there with my characters.
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