How to justify salt as currency?
How to justify salt as currency?
Michael Cruz
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Carson Hill
Salt is valuable because it allows one to preserve food.
Luke Sanders
Setting has various hostile slug-like lifeforms. Salt is a weapon.
Grayson Carter
This. Best in a setting where Purify Food and Drink is an actually useful spell outside of intrigue, or better, with no easy magic at all.
Cameron Turner
>currency consisting of tiny grains that can easily get lost in cracks and whatnot
This seems like a bad idea.
Liam Lewis
The setting is hot as fuck.
When you sweat a lot, you don't just lose water, you lose sodium. If you don't happen to live in a place where meat is easy to come by, replenishing your sodium is hard - and without enough sodium you'll eventually get sick and die.
IRL, Salt was frequently worth is weight (or more) in gold to peoples who lived in desert regions. In fact, that was largely what you'd trade to them.
If you don't want the setting to be mostly desert (or just hot but not a lot of non-toxic animals) you could also do something vague to do with demonology idk.
Carter James
>How to justify salt as currency?
It's difficult to get and has a number of practical uses: seasoning food, preserving food, and it's vital for proper health.
Salt as a currency is self-justifying given it's intrinsic value. They used to pay people in salt if I'm not mistaken.
Ayden Thomas
Roman soldiers were sometimes literally paid partly with slabs of salt, hence the saying "worth their salt."
Wyatt Walker
And the word 'Salary'.
Daniel Richardson
nigga not table salt. salt is a rock, you dont have to grind it into grains