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ikkonoishi

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Anvil Patronage
« on: February 14, 2008, 01:03:00 pm »
Considering that you need an anvil to make an anvil you should be able to trace the ancestry of anvils back to a strange mood or a gift from the gods at one point or another.
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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 01:07:00 pm »
Or just a way to make an anvil without an anvil. Say, from the smelter. Which is already possible, in a roundabout way, through reactions.

Tracing the family tree of an anvil is a nice idea though. Maybe also allow to see family trees of all the creatures you see, because they HAD to appear from somewhere.

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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 01:25:00 pm »
It never made sense to me that you needed an anvil to make an anvil, considering they're made the same way that bars are.
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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2008, 01:51:00 pm »
Aye, it would be more reasonable to be able to smelt an anvil from, say, three to five metal bars (have to be iron or better, though). Perhaps it need to be smoothed (engraving skill or simply put through a metalworks shop?) before use?
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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2008, 04:12:00 pm »
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Solara

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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2008, 04:56:00 pm »
The First Anvil being a gift from the gods actually sounds like it could be a major part of dwarven mythology.
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ikkonoishi

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Re: Anvil Patronage
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2008, 05:14:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Solara:
<STRONG>The First Anvil being a gift from the gods actually sounds like it could be a major part of dwarven mythology.</STRONG>

Hence why I suggested it, and not the other obvious options everyone pointed out. (smelting) I've been trying to figure out some way of making dwarves start with nothing and work their way up. The only way to do that currently is to kill a few iron men, some treants (who are no longer in the game really), and have a strange mood create an anvil by changing another building into a forge. Technically that would make two anvils.  :cool:

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