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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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The Lone badger said:
What are the mystical/mythical associations of bronze in this culture? I'm drawing a complete blank for the norse.
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Wild Speculation Incoming.

My first thought is that Bronze is made of copper and tin. Copper is around, Tin ISN'T. Tin comes from a couple places and there ain't none in northern europe(that you can extract without modern methods). This would associate Tin with Bronze with Trade to me.

EDIT: Mediocre research is actually telling me Copper isn't around Norway either.
 
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...Bronze is the foundational alloy of Civilization, purely because of the low melting point of the constituent parts and the sheer usefulness of the resulting product.

The implications of that should be fairly eyebrow-raising, given the context of how it was acquired

i.e. the boy Alloyed it with himself
 
The Lone badger said:
What are the mystical/mythical associations of bronze in this culture? I'm drawing a complete blank for the norse.
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I'm not sure there are good sources on that, to be honest. That said, there are some things we can infer from the realities involved:

-As OneArmedYeti notes, Bronze is entirely foreign in Norway. It all had to be imported, none occurring there naturally. So it being foreign and exotic is a likely connotation. This also makes it expensive, so wealth or trade is also possible.
-Bronze is archaic. Very much so...in this world it's probably been the Iron Age for over 10,000 years. So a connotation of being ancient is likely. This is particularly true as bronze does not rust, so it lasts a lot better than Iron over long periods of just sitting around.
-Bronze is able to be smelted at much lower temperatures than Iron. So a connotation of being colder or less resistant to heat is possible? It's also poured into a mold rather than hammered, so a water or liquid connotation is possible.
 
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The Lone badger said:
Mirrors would mostly be bronze, right?
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Not specifically. Bronze mirrors certainly existed but so did silver ones, likely steel ones (well, forged iron ones in this setting), and probably even glass ones (depending on era).

Like, bronze mirrors would exist, but it'd just be one on the list of 'shiny metals to make mirrors our of'.

Mystic Pentagram said:
I checked the character sheet and i can't find Sundersight, also Jarl-in-the-making should be 3/9 instead of 2/9 since we recruited Vagn.
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Sundersight added...the Jarlsoul progression is pending word from IF on whether he actually swore an oath to us.
 
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[X] Descend slowly and on high alert, who knows what could have made it's home there.
-[X] Make sure to bring backup, just in case.
 
Oh boy, here's hoping we can keep the poor kid drinking his milk. If he's got any control on the kind of bronze- well. Well well well. @Imperial Fister When we saw Asgeirr's teeth, what color of bronze were they? I've included a Helpful Sample Indicator below.


short version: depending on what sort of bronze our boy has, we might be able to teach him to shit weapons better than iron and without the negative thaumaturgical properties, with the added bonus of being able to use the good bronze that also happens to be the finger eating kind. Sten best consider himself lucky- depending on how the bronze shakes out, Asgeirr might have just accidentally jumped on a hand grenade just as nasty as the curse of steel. Old redsmiths and bronze-casters used to die a finger and toe at a time for a reason, and Sten might have started heading towards it, especially considering Finnish aversions to ironmongery.
 
7734 said:
short version: depending on what sort of bronze our boy has, we might be able to teach him to shit weapons better than iron and without the negative thaumaturgical properties,
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Probably not. Forged Iron is what we in the real world would call steel, and is thus pretty verifiably better than bronze and has no actual negative magics. Steel, in-universe, is a whole different thing.

Now, I'm interested in the 'finger eating' bit and he can probably do some fun stuff, but bronze is not fundamentally better than the material we're actually working with (though it plausibly is better than Bog Iron).
 
Anything that is conjured by magic lasts until it is narratively irrelevant.
7734 said:
Oh boy, here's hoping we can keep the poor kid drinking his milk. If he's got any control on the kind of bronze- well. Well well well. @Imperial Fister When we saw Asgeirr's teeth, what color of bronze were they? I've included a Helpful Sample Indicator below.
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The platonic ideal of bronze
 
[X] Descend slowly and on high alert, who knows what could have made it's home there.
-[X] Make sure to bring backup, just in case.

Just a reminder, but we have that dwarven cisel and hammer combo, that parts stone super easily. We should use that to open the doors, if they weren't excavated yet.
 
We should be careful about who we bring, we may want to keep this place a secret (it would be excellent for hiding our family during War). The fewer mouths the less chance for a slip.
 
[X] Descend slowly and on high alert, who knows what could have made it's home there.
-[X] Make sure to bring backup, just in case.
-[X] Unequip Quickest Stitch, Equip Piercing the Veil
-[X] Spam Identify Concept on anything unknown
-[X] Pre-emptive strike with Banishing Rebuke on any magic traps that have survived.
 
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Solar Saiyan said:
@Imperial Fister, @DeadmanwalkingXI , our char sheet still says we earn 29 orthstirr a year. It should be 38 with the heroic feat.
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Actually, they're just listed as separate categories with their separate incomes. The Heroic Feat being in its own category makes for a separate entry. Like, we get 29 from Feats and 9 from Heroic Feats. We also get another 10 from our ship, 11 from our Horses, and 6 from our Farm for 65 per year total...a united Orthstirr per year might be good, upon reflection, though I'm not sure where to put it.
 
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