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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5310655" data-attributes="member: 71571"><p>Cause there's very few mines left. The thing to understand is that Athas is not some new world ripe for plunder... it's a very very old world. </p><p></p><p>Imagine the Forgotten Realms. Now picture it eons in the future... where every vein of useful metal has been stripmined down to nothing. Once those run out, imagine magic being used to find what little's left. Magic that destroys nature simply in the preparation for the casting. </p><p></p><p>Now subject it to the magical equivalent of a nuclear apocolypse, something that makes the Time of Troubles and the Spellplague look like minor inconveniences, where the energies of life itself was sacrificed for the purpose of eradicating all non-human life. Where men were killed strictly to power the spells used to kill other men.</p><p></p><p>Now... take what scant resources are left, and go forth another millennium of what few pockets of life remains fighting and killing each other for these resources.</p><p></p><p>That is why metal is rare. Everything is rare. Water, fertile soil, safety, shelter... there is nothing that is common except for the remains of the dead. What is left, men fight and die to keep, for they have little choice. Bone bleached from those that did not survive. Glass created from the one thing the land has in abundance... dead sand. Leather taken from the skin of beasts who only live to be slaughtered. </p><p></p><p>It isn't that metal doesn't exist... it's that it's rare and expensive. People use other materials out of sheer necessity... when your choice is 'wear some dead bug's carapace' or 'die' then you pretty much know your options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 5310655, member: 71571"] Cause there's very few mines left. The thing to understand is that Athas is not some new world ripe for plunder... it's a very very old world. Imagine the Forgotten Realms. Now picture it eons in the future... where every vein of useful metal has been stripmined down to nothing. Once those run out, imagine magic being used to find what little's left. Magic that destroys nature simply in the preparation for the casting. Now subject it to the magical equivalent of a nuclear apocolypse, something that makes the Time of Troubles and the Spellplague look like minor inconveniences, where the energies of life itself was sacrificed for the purpose of eradicating all non-human life. Where men were killed strictly to power the spells used to kill other men. Now... take what scant resources are left, and go forth another millennium of what few pockets of life remains fighting and killing each other for these resources. That is why metal is rare. Everything is rare. Water, fertile soil, safety, shelter... there is nothing that is common except for the remains of the dead. What is left, men fight and die to keep, for they have little choice. Bone bleached from those that did not survive. Glass created from the one thing the land has in abundance... dead sand. Leather taken from the skin of beasts who only live to be slaughtered. It isn't that metal doesn't exist... it's that it's rare and expensive. People use other materials out of sheer necessity... when your choice is 'wear some dead bug's carapace' or 'die' then you pretty much know your options. [/QUOTE]
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