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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 464790" data-attributes="member: 6929">Something I always wanted to do was a primal setting where you had loads of planetouched. Aasimar and tieflings as catalysts for civilisation, guided by their divine parents. After all, if you've got help from major-league outsiders, you can start doing things like forging iron or raising mighty armies well before such things were ever invented in real history.On the topic of stone age cultures, New Zealand had a stone age culture until a couple of hundred years ago. Weapons tended to be spears and mere, which are sharp clubs made of greenstone. Such things as swords and other (slashing) weapons are too large for dense, overgrown terrain such as we have here. Try to swing a longsword in the bush and see how fast you tie yourself to a tree.And on the topic of serrated blades of natural glass...The cool thing about properly knapped obsidian, greenstone, glass etc. is that you can get the edge down to a molecule across with minimum effort. Even if it breaks, it's still going to be stunningly sharp across the broken edges. Has anyone here read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash? That's near-future cyberpunk and the most lethal guy in it (well, except the guy with the nam-shub and the guy with Reason - don't ask; let's just say people listen to Reason) has a pair of glass knives. Honestly, why did people ever muck around with steel?Finally, I've actually seen Austro-Hungarian blades made with a blade that curves back and forth (like a kris dagger), but it's not serrated. Apparently, they were used by mercenaries who wanted to look cool, and were otherwise pretty useless.</blockquote>

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