(This was inspired by reading about Ötzi, talking about health care standards in Glorantha, and a recent visit to the dentist.)
One of the horrors of history that we perhaps don't consider as much, is the utterly appalling state of dental health that people experienced ever since agriculture began and up more modern dentistry (Louis XIV, for instance, had horrific dental issues). Hunters and gatherers may not have awful dental health, but as soon as we hit agriculture, especially with milled grain containing some stony remnants, dental health becomes simply ghastly. Ötzi the ice-man had really bad teeth, and it's probably safe to say that this was endemic and chronic in populations from the Neolithic onwards.
So what I'm wondering is to what extent this holds true in Glorantha as well, or whether the peoples of Glorantha have access to magical dentistry as well as healing. It would have to be a pretty gritty and grim campaign before the PC:s dental pains becomes much of an issue, but it's one of those things that go to the state of the world. And if there is magical dentistry, which divine entities handle that and provide the magics?
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Dental Health in Glorantha
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