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Metals that aren't & other edge cases

Eleanor Konik
Apr 12, 2021
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I was working on a bronze age story where the protagonist needed to be able to melt stone in a cauldron, which at her technological level would have been impossible given the properties of bronze. Since realmwalking gods were involved, I was able to work around her limitations, but if I was leaning on magic anyway, I didn't want to base her cauldron on …

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