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I'll get to those two eventually, though I left them out for a reason. Lead and Mercury were just too problematic to use--I tried some bits of writing with them, and readers were bothered by people eating obviously poisonous metals. So, I decided to leave them out, for now. Mercury shares a problem with silver in that I couldn't find good, often-used alloys of the metals that would work in the system. There's always a base metal and a paired alloy. Iron/Steel, Tin/pewter, that sort of thing. The only one I could find for silver was electrum, which I was already using for another purpose.

You're right about me and magic systems, by the way. They--actually, the entire setting of a book--are my favorite parts about designing a novel. When I write, I hope that the characters take over. Books, even books with great magic, lack power if they aren't about good characters. However, many of the concepts that make me want to write books start with interesting setting elements.

Thanks for reading.