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<blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 712775" data-attributes="member: 9983">I think I remeber seeing on the National Geo channel a documentery about nomadic reindeer herders in the arctic circle using mammoth tusks they had unearthed for hard wearing tools and harness components. There isnt much metal, not a lot of wood so they have to use what they find.For your sea shells one of the uses I can think of them is to grind them up, combine them with sand, water and maybe something like lime to make a type of concrete. All but the lime should be relatively plentiful near where they are found, or some magical mixture that builders can pour into it.(Nuke it into a ceramic perhaps in a magical forge?)Wonderful stuff concrete, you can make tiles, bricks, roads and all manner of long lasting structures with it that only get tougher with age if you mix it properly. We take it for granted because we walk over it every day and live in it. But, in a fantasy setting the use of it would set a civilisation apart, in a world where most places are made of carved and fitted stone, timber and mud brick if you follow the conventional fantasy dwellings.Hmm, I guess for other materials the Darksun setting has a whole lot of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thresher, post: 712775, member: 9983"] I think I remeber seeing on the National Geo channel a documentery about nomadic reindeer herders in the arctic circle using mammoth tusks they had unearthed for hard wearing tools and harness components. There isnt much metal, not a lot of wood so they have to use what they find. For your sea shells one of the uses I can think of them is to grind them up, combine them with sand, water and maybe something like lime to make a type of concrete. All but the lime should be relatively plentiful near where they are found, or some magical mixture that builders can pour into it. (Nuke it into a ceramic perhaps in a magical forge?) Wonderful stuff concrete, you can make tiles, bricks, roads and all manner of long lasting structures with it that only get tougher with age if you mix it properly. We take it for granted because we walk over it every day and live in it. But, in a fantasy setting the use of it would set a civilisation apart, in a world where most places are made of carved and fitted stone, timber and mud brick if you follow the conventional fantasy dwellings. Hmm, I guess for other materials the Darksun setting has a whole lot of them. [/QUOTE]

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