I always thought elves would be more powerful than humans but it takes them longer to cast a spell while humans are weaker but faster at magic. Don't no why I think that but it just seems to fit.
I think that it really would be good to get the animals and plants divided by area as well as type and I think I have a way of doing it that will cause very little work for anyone.
At the moment I see that people are adding entries on areas of Santharia i.e. the Narfost plains and Mithral mountains. In the Narfost plains entry there are written paragraphs on plants and animals so if someone just made a table to put at the bottom of this with a list of all the plants and animals found there divided into categories like predators etc. then it will allow some one in the narfost plains to click on it and see all the animals they can meet their shown to them in a simple table.
When more entries on different regions are completed we should gradually get a complete list and under bestiary you could have "Animals of the Narfost plains" and a link to the table.
If we don't want a super powerful creature and only need one of them couldn't it be one demonologist whose spell went wrong, giving him the powers you mention and he could of lived for a long time explaining the myths.
Sorry I meant to say in any region North of the Rahaz Dath Sourth of the Warnaka mountains but that was just a suggestion, you should probably get out a map and have a look at where it could live.
I like it and see we have another artist among us. Just one thing I think the territory should include a region of Sorren as well i.e. any region above Strata and below the Warnaka mountains or wherever else you want.
My Gnomes would be happy to oblige with the Dwarves need for metals, but with every give there is a little take and my Gnomes would like to request small amounts of metals as well as a lot of stone that Dwarves would consider useless (like limestone and rock salt). The merchants may even be able to throw in food and Gnomish alcohol.
On another note Greybark's post has given me an idea, the Gnomes could produce a drug similair to cannabis i.e. smoked and imparting a sense of goodwill. Nobles in some cities could be addicted to it so it would command a reasonably high price. If no-one has any moral objections I will add it in.
I wasn't talking about Santharia but I had picked up from somewhere (people, books) that earlier in history (middle ages) the average height was about 5 foot but I could easily be wrong so if I was you Greybark I'd listen to Capher.
Your maths is right so unless there is a major difference between brownies and humans in terms of their body what you've come up with is correct (at least as far as I can tell as you should have 1/12 cubed of everything in a brownie's body so the weights would all work out). The only thing I would mention is earlier in human history people were a lot smaller.
Yep, Hopefully the whole lot will be finished in a week, two at most and then I can start on something else. (most of the main entry is nearly finished just needs some history, religion and fine tuning)
Okay I'll do Urdan you do the Dwarf. I'll put it on my to do list after the Gnomes entry. Then after that I'll have to do all the other people in Gnomish hitory.
A small piece of Uruyant which was given to Apothek Urdan Dwarf friend for his help with creating the different types of iron in collaboration with (suitable dwarven name) is the basis of the incredibly accurate Gnomish measuring system. It weighs about ¼ of an od (the exact conversion, established by Gnomish merchants to facilitate trade with humans, is 11/39th of an od). The piece of Uruyant as almost indestructible weighs almost exactly the same when it was presented as it does now and it is impossible to shave flakes off it so it was considered perfect for use as a weight. Originally he calculated it’s weight using most of the primitive and ununified systems the Gnomes used then and he used his piece of uruyant to make sure he wasn’t swindled and to check his weights during chemical reactions to make sure he didn’t make any mistakes. When the usefulness of this system and its ease of use became apparent it was adopted by all Gnomes as the standard and the earlier systems died out. The capital city, Gnorath contains this piece of uruyant and in each village is a piece of iron that has been weighed against this.
For smaller measurements the weight, called an uruyant is divided up. To do this a piece of iron is obtained which is slightly heavier than one uruyant. It is then divided approximately in half, and the two pieces are weighed against eachother. They are then shaved until they are the same weight and both of them are compared to an uruyant, and both are shaved by about the same amount, until eventually you get to almost perfect half uruyants or more commonly halves. Of course now days you simply get a lump of iron and shave it until it is the same weight as an already existing half. About every ten years the iron uruyant in a village is compared to the original uruyant and if it has lost weight it is re-made. The uruyant is commonly subdivided into 512 pieces. Most chemists will have brass weights totalling one uruyant divided up as follows, one half, one quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth, one thirty-second, one sixty-fourth, one hundred and twenty-eight, one two hundred and fifty-sixths and two five hundred and twelfths. Apart from those shown above there are no other subdivisions ever used by Gnomes and it should be obvious that anything can be weighed to within one five hundred and twelfths of an uruyant. For larger weights uruyants are used as the standard measure, i.e. a loaf of bread would be about 4 uruyants.
This system is also the basis for the measurement of liquids. The standard measure of liquids is called rather unimaginatively a measure and is equivalent to the volume taken up by one uruyant’s weight of water. The system uses identical subdivisions and most chemists will have a set of small cups consisting of one half measure all the way down in the same way to five hundred and twelfths.
The use of the words measure and uruyant are often redundant. If it is more than one uruyant it is often shortened to uru. There are shortened names for all the subdivisions of uruyants which have developed due to constant use. Half, a quarter and an eight of an uru are normally said without uru all the time (i.e. a half of limestone). The smaller divisions are sometimes referred to in terms of eights for up to a sixty fourth (i.e. half an eighth and quarter of an eighth and confusingly double an eighth). A 128th is a leaf, a 256th is a bee’s eye, and a 512th a grain.
This system has also been adopted by brownies, Keekoo discovered this system during his travels and mission of setting brownies free. He had not found any information out about weights in Birn and so was quite happy to adopt the Gnomish system with a few changes. The Gnomes as stated above never use any other divisions of an uru however, as the brownies need to measure even smaller things, they have continued the subdivisions and they use half a grain etc. all the way down to encompass all the weights they need.
The "final" copy. Unless anyone wants to change the names of the subdivisions (be my guest), Greybark wants to add more on the brownies use of uruyants or there is another problem this is finished apart from needing a suitable name for the dwarf who co-developed the different types of iron.
A small piece of Uruyant which was given to Apothek Urdan Dwarf friend for his help with creating the different types of iron in collaboration with (suitable dwarven name) is the basis of the incredibly accurate Gnomish measuring system. It weighs about ¼ of an od (the exact conversion, established by Gnomish merchants to facilitate trade with humans, is 11/39th of an od). The piece of Uruyant as almost indestructible weighs almost exactly the same when it was presented as it does now and it is impossible to shave flakes off it so it was considered perfect for use as a weight. Originally he calculated it’s weight using most of the primitive and ununified systems the Gnomes used then and he used his piece of uruyant to make sure he wasn’t swindled and to check his weights during chemical reactions to make sure he didn’t make any mistakes. When the usefulness of this system and its ease of use became apparent it was adopted by all Gnomes as the standard and the earlier systems died out. The capital city, Gnorath contains this piece of uruyant and in each village is a piece of iron that has been weighed against this.
For smaller measurements the weight, called an uruyant is divided up. To do this a piece of iron is obtained which is slightly heavier than one uruyant. It is then divided approximately in half, and the two pieces are weighed against eachother. They are then shaved until they are the same weight and both of them are compared to an uruyant, and both are shaved by about the same amount, until eventually you get to almost perfect half uruyants or more commonly halves. Of course now days you simply get a lump of iron and shave it until it is the same weight as an already existing half. About every ten years the iron uruyant in a village is compared to the original uruyant and if it has lost weight it is re-made. The uruyant is commonly subdivided into 512 pieces. Most chemists will have brass weights totalling one uruyant divided up as follows, one half, one quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth, one thirty-second, one sixty-fourth, one hundred and twenty-eight, one two hundred and fifty-sixths and two five hundred and twelfths. Apart from those shown above there are no other subdivisions ever used and it should be obvious that anything can be weighed to within one five hundred and twelfths of an uruyant. For larger weights uruyants are used as the standard measure, i.e. a loaf of bread would be about 4 uruyants.
This system is also the basis for the measurement of liquids. The standard measure of liquids is called rather unimaginatively a measure and is equivalent to the volume taken up by one uruyant’s weight of water. The system uses identical subdivisions and most chemists will have a set of small cups consisting of one half measure all the way down in the same way to five hundred and twelfths.
The use of the words measure and uruyant are often redundant. If it is more than one uruyant it is often shortened to uru. There are shortened names for all the subdivisions of uruyants which have developed due to constant use. Half, a quarter and an eight of an uru are normally said without uru all the time (i.e. a half of limestone). The smaller divisions are sometimes referred to in terms of eights for up to a sixty fourth (i.e. half an eighth and quarter of an eighth and confusingly double an eighth). A 128th is a leaf, a 256th is a bee’s eye, and a 512th a grain.
This system has also been adopted by brownies, who learned of it through trade with Gnomes and now have adopted the system with a few changes. The Gnomes as stated above never use any other divisions of an uru however as the brownies need to measure even smaller things so have continued the subdivisions and they use half a grain etc. all the way down to encompass all the weights they need.
Okay, we can easily get some names going for the divisions. I'll post a final (hopefully) copy up here by the end of today. I have no objections to the Brownies using this system and subdividing the smallest unit. We must think of how the brownies got hold of this system. From what I can tell the easiest way for the Brownies to of got this system is if they picked it up when they were still captives of humans from the Gnomes who lived among them, the only problem is that the Uruyant was around as a measurement in 4013 b.s. as the Gnomes weren't unified till after the Vardynian atonement. Thus I propose that the Brownies got hold of the system through trade with the Gnomes and modified it for their use ofcourse this means only Brownies who trade with Santharia could possibly have got hold of it, unless Brownies are in contact somehow. I'll post that brownies have several sub-divisions and gained the system through trade in the final copy unless you can think of a better way of doing it. (in which case just post it after the final post and I'm sure Artimidor can merge them).
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