[Glorantha] Re: Enchanted Iron

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky>
Date: Thu Jul 5 20:00:14 2007

Jane:

> And in HQ, suddenly Iron
> can't be enchanted anymore, and overnight, your
> precious sword that you spent game-years working
> towards is wrecking your magic and you have to leave
> it?

I think we've been through this before, but, so far as I can tell, HQ says no such thing. It doesn't specifically say that you *can* enchant

iron, but it doesn't specifically say that you can't, either - it just 
says that 'refined' iron still dampens magic. As far as I can tell from 
the text, 'refined' is not the same as 'enchanted', and the effects of 

the latter are not specified anywhere. Since the old sources said that enchanted iron didn't dampen magic, I assume it still doesn't. Granted, you wouldn't know that from reading the book, but that doesn't make it a change - just an omission.

Hmm... I should probably discuss this in MotW 3, if I ever get around to writing it. The Loskalmi magicians are famous for wearing lots of iron, after all...

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Trotsky
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