Originally posted by Dagoth-Ur:

It fits in lore and makes travel not garbage, it even has the debilitating stipulation of no metals. Besides they look cool.

See the whole no refined metals thing to me doesn't make any sense.

I get no ore, for two reasons.
1) it keeps portals from being the absolute defacto transport system in the game. Carts and Boats remain purposeful.
3) From a lore angle one might argue impurities interfere with the magical energies. Which I can suspension of disbelief away.

Ingots on the other hand make zero sense
Since the player has
1) Already transported the ore to some level of base/outpost by way of foot/cart or boat.
2) put in the effort to smelt/purify them (read: did the thing)

Where it extra falls apart is that you can then travel with armor/weapons which are just the purified ingots reshaped into armor/weapons.


Not I've seem some people try to lore around that and say "well maybe you inscribe the weapons/armor with runes that allow their transport" and where that falls face first into the swampy quagmire is NAILS

So they're trying to tell me that I'm going to have the patience to painstakingly inscribe each and erry nail I make with a magic rune BUT am not going to have the basic forethought to just do the same to my ingots?