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<blockquote data-quote="Tristissima" data-source="post: 7513561" data-attributes="member: 6162"><p>As a fiction-first, mythopoetic, immersivist kind of qween, I like to consider rough translations of prices into the money/value system I'm used to handling me own self: US dollars. From my investigations around the web, I've come to the conclusion that a copper piece can be roughly considered to be worth $2-5 (to forestall possible flames: note just how WIDE that range is). This would make the 1000gp <em>ladle of candle-making</em> worth about $200,000-$500,000.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://candles.lovetoknow.com/Candle_Making_Business_Budget" target="_blank">This site</a> suggests a candle business would need an annual budget of around $10,000, all told. But that's a very modern number, mind. Candles were much more of a luxury item way back in the day, linked to the slaughter of meat-sources (animals), which was uncommon at best ~ their value is more in their potential to become things than in their becoming those things. Typically, a household would spend mebbe a couple consecutive days (prolly less) turning animal fat into light sources for the rest of the year. They'd make, I'd guess, a thousand max (which would require the slaughter of quite a large percentage of their wealth and many person-hours). And that would last the rest of the year.</p><p></p><p>A ladle of candle-making could make three times that upper limit over the course of a year for free, easily make a bunch more with that massive skill bonus, and could respond to need rather than requiring budgeting/rationing of items over large periods of time. I'd imagine that'd be worth a good quarter million dollars' equivalent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tristissima, post: 7513561, member: 6162"] As a fiction-first, mythopoetic, immersivist kind of qween, I like to consider rough translations of prices into the money/value system I'm used to handling me own self: US dollars. From my investigations around the web, I've come to the conclusion that a copper piece can be roughly considered to be worth $2-5 (to forestall possible flames: note just how WIDE that range is). This would make the 1000gp [I]ladle of candle-making[/I] worth about $200,000-$500,000. [URL="https://candles.lovetoknow.com/Candle_Making_Business_Budget"]This site[/URL] suggests a candle business would need an annual budget of around $10,000, all told. But that's a very modern number, mind. Candles were much more of a luxury item way back in the day, linked to the slaughter of meat-sources (animals), which was uncommon at best ~ their value is more in their potential to become things than in their becoming those things. Typically, a household would spend mebbe a couple consecutive days (prolly less) turning animal fat into light sources for the rest of the year. They'd make, I'd guess, a thousand max (which would require the slaughter of quite a large percentage of their wealth and many person-hours). And that would last the rest of the year. A ladle of candle-making could make three times that upper limit over the course of a year for free, easily make a bunch more with that massive skill bonus, and could respond to need rather than requiring budgeting/rationing of items over large periods of time. I'd imagine that'd be worth a good quarter million dollars' equivalent. [/QUOTE]
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