From: Kenneth Gauck

>>In actuality, Haelyn and Roele probably rode to the battle,
>>and then dismounted, the lack of stirrups making horseback fighting
>>impractical. Being the sons of the First House, they would have had the
>>best tools of war available: axes, swords, ringed mail, and iron-bossed
>>wooden shields.
>
>I always pictured Diesmaar as being a bronze age event.
>
In the BoP, it specifically describes Haelyn's shield as wooden with
iron, so I thought it was safe to assume they were into the iron age, at
least for such small things as mail and weapons.
Wouldn't it be an awfully fast advance, for them to go from bronze age to
a semi-renaissance in just 1500 years?

Daniel McSorley- mcsorley.1@osu.edu