[Rq-rules] [OT][General FRP]Riddle of Steel

[Sven Lugar]

Or you could go with the original legend that SvartalfR (Dark-elves aka 
dwarves in the old Germanic Lore) were descended from worms/maggots 
(depending on how you translate it.)
Skol
Sven

postmaster at runequest.za.org wrote:
> Sven wrote:
>   
>> Spot on my friend, you get the picture precisely! Steel was increasingly
>> available, in widely varying quality, but not common until later periods
>> even in the very late Bronze Age to bronze poor areas (heck probably
>> even as a nice rock for an club in the neolithic). This is a great thing
>> for the Roleplayer as it provides a logical progression of blade
>> qualities (see my original post) from common to Runic. I feel, as to
>> other archaeologists, that the famous blades (Excalibur, Tyrfing,
>> Joyeuse, Curtana, etc), usually attributed to the Smith-God
>> Weyland/Volund, were in fact early period weapons that came from a smith
>> or family of smiths who happened across a large find of meteoritic
>> nickel-iron steel. Because of the innate quality of the blend they
>> would, as legend tells us, cut through ordinary weapons without dulling.
>> Probably a matter of a better than average smith with a superior supply
>> of raw material. Imagine gaming a quest for some "Star Stones" to make a
>> Runic weapon.
>>     
> <snip>
>
> Another interesting off spin could be the star steel has some sort of
> radioactive or mutative properties. Could explain why the smith Ragin
> ended up becoming a dwarf and or was considered a bit hideous by the time
> he made Sigifriths sword.
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