daniel_gudman said:
TenguPhule said:
Many of the more modern legendary weapons are based off of OLDER then dirt stories being told before written words were invented.
Hence Gil gets the originals while everyone else gets the next model down.
...so Ea of Babylon was forged of a fantastic metal, incomprehensible to man, that was sharper and tougher than anything known, carved directly from a fallen meteor.
Of course, looked at another way, it's just meteoric iron-nickle, that's like 40% of all asteroids, it's nothing special or interesting; it's practically garbage compared to the high-carbon steels coked with manganese and tungsten and whatever.
It was the original meteor!
I kid, I kid. The meteor was almost certainly supernatural itself. In that aspect, such a thing would not be totally unique; another supernatural meteor in the Nasuverse is ORT, also known as Type Mercury, the 5th DAA, a vampiric super-arachnid with the power to turn everything in reality into some kind of white kryptonite. Yes, you <s>heard</s> read that right, it's a spider-like, vampiric, meteor with Unlimited Crystal Works. It's currently slumming in South America, IIRC.
By contrast, some kind of psyker ubermetal from space is almost tame.
Oh, and this is ORT. Ain't she cute?
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This is also ORT.
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And there's the so-called "Bronze Age Collapse", where those legends and stories were lost, when the city-states of Mesopotamia were annihilated and their civilizations lost. Because barbarians came along, using weapons of iron, that made them superior warriors; that's the theoretical origin of the "chariots of iron" mentioned in the Bible, capable of defeating even the chosen warriors of God.
I get they're super-mystic "originals", but when they become lost and forgotten because they are obsolete, because they are inferior... I find it hard to believe they'd be more powerful than the superior articles that superseded them.
Of course, that argues against the underlying idea of the canon, not the internal logic of canon.
You're mixing real life canon and Nasuverse canon. Be careful.
Nasuverse humans were apparently all reality warpers and demigods during Gil's time, and the current modern "superiority" is one built on ignorance; basically, the rise of our sci-tech was just not enough to counteract the loss of our magitech, with the latter being depleted faster than the former can be improved.
Real life canon is just the opposite, as far as we know. There's little physical evidence for magic (not that magic is conducive to producing physical evidence) so we can logically conclude that magic is either non-existent or unimportant in the grand scheme.