Editing Storm Riders (section)

==Metal & Weapons==
In reality, the choice to use metal is not such a big deal with Praxians, as they can get things like metal spear tips and bronze knives from Lunar, Esrolian or Kralori traders. The Praxians stay on the plains by *choice*, and because their ancestral magics let them dwell easily on the plains. A typical Praxian brave will probably carry a sling, a bone or bronze knife, several javelins, a spear that has either a flint or metal tip, and so on. Further, many, many Earth gods died on the plains of Prax during the Lesser and Greater darkness, and in the hills there are Bronze deposits for those who know where to look. While the Nomads don't bother with metallurgy, the Oasis people do, for trade. You get your metal from these deposits or from the Pass, and you have your Gustbran people who have small forges in wagons that can make and repair small amounts of metal items. However, for a new sword or a jack of mail, that entails a trip to Pavis or to a town in the Pass like Runegate.

Despite what they claim, Praxians make use of various Oasis people communities to get their metal goods, for which they exchange exotic animal goods, truestone, slaves and other Prax commodities to get. Only the really poor bastards who get driven into the wastes have to go the entire stone age route, and even then they have rituals and spirits which can make their bone and stone as effective as metal.

You guys have it somewhat different. While you will not usually be carrying an enchanted bone knife, nor do you have the ancestor spirit fetishes that will let stone age weapons be as good as metal swords, you have Issaries traders who have trade contacts in Pavis, down in the Holy Country and in the Pass.

One final thing - a popular method of getting a hold of metal for Pol Joni is liberating it from the corpses of dead Lunars. However, Pol Joni are usually harassed by Lunar patrols, and anyone with more metal than a knife or a metal speartip (ie, more than hunting weapons) will be assumed to be a bandit or a rebel and dealt with accordingly.