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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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In Norse mythology the tides were created when Thor was tricked into trying to drink the ocean, but I'm not certain that's relevant. could be a really obscure way to say Thor's Gift?
 
Bass11 said:
Black man's end could be a poetic way to refer to people being charred/burned from the explosive charm.
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My bet is that the "black man" is actually Surtr. I could be wrong... but worth looking into. We should also look more into actual related myth, it might link up. I could be reading too far into it though.
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I agree with Drifa, that was awesome.

For the plans, I would like to point out our gambeson is wrecked.
I seen deadman mention auto repair, but that's the first time I hear about it...
Not to mention that Imperial mentioned we can repair health/armor points equal to armor craft levels....

That's all.
 
My bet for "black man's end" is an iron weapon. Iron is black, and a sword, axe or spear could be "man's end". It also combos with clay - the explosive tag is hardened clay, but it's also a weapon.
 
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TheCount said:
I seen deadman mention auto repair, but that's the first time I hear about it...
Not to mention that Imperial mentioned we can repair health/armor points equal to armor craft levels....
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Autorepair repairs equivalent to Armorcraft level. You can use a personal action to focus on repairs to fix quicker.
 
Interesting, so not only is auto repair is a thing, but upping armorcraft ups the auto repair too. That's good to hear.

Oh, right, just a reminder, but Halla doesn't know the rules of runes, IC. We should ask Hallr about it.
 
Imperial Fister said:
"Hardened-Soft Meets Black Man's End. Force of Fire is Low-Tide's Gift."
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Hardened-Soft is, as previously noted, fired clay.

I'll agree that "black man" here is Surtr. At the end of days, after he battles Freyr, Surtr's fire engulfs the earth.

I strongly suspect that "low-tide's gift" is referring to the coal that washes up on shore. There are few sea-coalers out there to this day, making a living by heading out at low tide to dredge up wet coal from the sands.

I'm guessing that "force of fire" is just referring to an explosion, but I'm less sure about that one. Seems a bit too obvious.

edit: Oh! Almost forgot to vote.

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Sirrocco said:
Hardened-Soft is, as previously noted, fired clay.

I'll agree that "black man" here is Surtr. At the end of days, after he battles Freyr, Surtr's fire engulfs the earth.

I strongly suspect that "low-tide's gift" is referring to the coal that washes up on shore. There are few sea-coalers out there to this day, making a living by heading out at low tide to dredge up wet coal from the sands.

I'm guessing that "force of fire" is just referring to an explosion, but I'm less sure about that one. Seems a bit too obvious.

edit: Oh! Almost forgot to vote.

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if all these are true, the translation would be "pottery meets fire, explosions are coal." which doesn't seem quite right to me.
 
"Force of Fire" could refer to earthquakes. Loki is a fire god, and his agonized thrashings beneath the earth are said to cause earthquakes. That has a greater connection to coal... it could also refer to volcanoes, maybe?
 
wrecksalot said:
if all these are true, the translation would be "pottery meets fire, explosions are coal." which doesn't seem quite right to me.
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Well, it's certainly possible to get explosions with coal dust. Thus you can have a forceful fire coming from that low-tide's gift. It's also the cse that "Hardened-Soft" might refer to clay that is merely dried, in which case having it meet the fire might be the process of firing it. From a quick web search (accuracy unknown) pottery at the time was "coarse, simple, and burned black". I feel like this might be the sort of thing where multiple connections and secondary meanings are pertinent/useful? The bit where coal itself is black? I dunno. I'm giving you what I got. I figure that if we somehow manage to come across all of it, he'll give it to us.
 
TheCount said:
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Are we firing pottery?

Clay touched by fire, which strength comes from coal?
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It might be "Check out my nifty clay thingy. I totally fired this with coal.", but I'm not sure how you get an explosion out of that, unless there's some mojo that says that the coal fire that went into making it is being stored inside and can be brought back out again.
 
Pottery can shatter/explode in the kiln, if there's residual moisture in it. Maybe the runes are telling the story of pottery that exploded, thus creating an explosive charm when it shatters?
 
Sirrocco said:
It might be "Check out my nifty clay thingy. I totally fired this with coal.", but I'm not sure how you get an explosion out of that, unless there's some mojo that says that the coal fire that went into making it is being stored inside and can be brought back out again.
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I mean, most scandinavian runestones from about this time tend to say things like "I, (viking's name here) carve the runes upon this stone" So maybe we are overthinking this.
 
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