Thread:MediocreKnight/@comment-27666783-20200227215226/@comment-27550231-20200302041726

AngryLance wrote: @BTR About the currency thing: I thought long and did some research (and by that I mean just look up random stuff on the Internet) I think I finaly came to a solution. One that should explain why Lina and anyone from Mirefield don't consider gold all that valuable. I don't know how well this sounds so I could please use some input.

Thing is, Mirefield being on this remote piece of land named Aerith, has a rather obscure monetary system, with coins being made from completely different metals than your usual gold/silver/bronze. Here, they use chroms (chromium), pallads (palladium) and rhodims (rhodium). The value of these is as follows: 1 rhodim = 5 pallads; 1 pallad = 5 chroms; 1 rhodim = 1 or 3 gold (not sure).

These are known to be among the most precious metals, but in Aerith they are rather abundant and used sorta cheaply. How are these metals so abundant here ? Let's say that it stems from old legends partaining the formation of Aerith and Mirefield, involving a young male leader of a nomadic population, a Troll from a local tribe and a particularly powerful Gnome.

This might mean that the lands of Aerith are infact rich, although the populations sorta don't realise the extent of this (I know, pretty dumb but these lands were semi-isolated). Which also explains one of the reasons that the Order occupied it for a good few years.

What do you guys think ?

I just think that we should retcon that Lina gave out a gold coin like nothing and just move on because if you say that chromium and more precious metals just laying around it kinda just inflathe value of gold and cheapens everything else for your characters. Because what is the value of money when you're dollar is worth a hundred or theirs. But it doesn't matter because people jst tend to gloss of the money thing by just paying a reasonable amount and as money really holds no value here