Rare and unusual metals of Glorantha
Sodium
(ta-metal, tan-metal)
Sodium is an exceptionally rare metal, generally agreed to be made from the bones of gods of Sky Water or Firey Water, which are most notably Tanian and his few descendants. As such, godbone sodium has never been recorded. It is generally agreed that it is also possible, like how bronze can be created by combining tin and copper, to create sodium via combining aluminum or quicksilver with gold. The precise process remains unknown to the world at large.
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Well, historically electrum (as a naturally occurring ore that had its silver content enhanced) was the metal used for the first coins. In Glorantha, of course, we all know that the first coins were the bodies of the Gold Wheel Dancers, and that is why a golden coin is a wheel. Silver coins, meanwhile, have historically been so uncommon that the recent innovations of the lunar and the guilder have been able to cement themselves as common terms.
So we might well assume that "historical" (re
