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     Prices are based on 1 Gold = $4000, 1 Silver = $40, and 1 Copper = $0.40

     Price list as of July 2015. (PDF, please download)

    Type of items on the list include:

     Items below are not yet added to the PDF; Lisa needs to approve and add these. 

Materials List

     Materials from Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening listed in increasing order of value.

Leather

• Rough

• Cured

• Plain

• Hardened

• Reinforced

• Inscribed 

• Drakeskin

• Dragonwing

• High Dragon Hide 

Metals

• Iron

• Grey Iron

• Steel

• Veridium

• Red Steel

• Silverite

• Dragonbone

• Starmetal 

• White Steel

• Volcanic Aurum 

Woods

• Elm

• Ash

• Yew

• Whitewood

• Ironbark

• Sylvanwood

• Dragonthorn

• Vhenadahl

• Ancestral Heartwood 

Rope

     There are two sorts of non-magical "mundane" rope, hemp and flax. Some examples are:

• thin hemp rope 0.25" diameter. A coil of 100 feet weighs 2 pounds, costs 8 silver

• 450 lbs. tensile strength; not too suitable for climbing, but useful for other purposes (such as tying things up, lifting small loads, etc.)
  

• hemp rope 0.4" diameter. A coil of 100 feet weighs 5 pounds, costs 20 silver
  

• 1,200 lbs. tensile strength; the most common rope in commercial and maritime use

• thick hemp rope 0.5" diameter. A coil of 100 feet weighs 8 pounds, costs 32 silver

• 1,900 lbs. tensile strength

• flax rope 0.45" diameter. A coil 100 feet long weighs 4-1/2 pounds, costs 50 silver
  

• 1,900 lbs. tensile strength; it's more flexible than hemp, and is better for climbing, but its expense limits its use (on ships, it's cheaper to use thicker hemp ropes)
  

      At a sea port, many more examples of rope sizes will be available, up to mooring ropes a couple of inches thick.

      Manila rope would be less expensive than hemp, slightly stronger, causes less friction in pulleys, and floats on water. In the real world, it comes from the tropics (in fact, a plant related to the banana tree); not sure where an equivalent would come from in Thedas.

     Other ropes are made from animal hides, grass, cotton, metal wire, etc., but are rarely found in long lengths; they're mostly used for specific purposes.

Containers for Liquids

     Some capacities, weights and costs of containers for liquids. Historically, capacities and prices varied a lot, between nations, eras and products. "Oh, you mean the early 16th Century Welsh herring barrel, well that's ... ". Weights when full refer to water. Costs are in English silver pennies (1.3 to 1.5 grams of silver), and then divided by three to match Ferelden prices. The best sources on costs of barrels are for the barrel and kilderkin. The term "eighth barrel" is modern -- there's no consistent term historically, though wooden barrels and buckets down to a few gallons existed. The 40 gallon "grand barrel" is to exactly match the barrel on the price list.

• tun, 10 silver

• 256 gallons capacity, 350 pounds empty, 2490 pounds full

• butt, 5 silver

• 128 gallons capacity, 185 pounds empty, 1255 pounds full

• puncheon, 10 silver

• 72 gallons capacity, 140 pounds empty, 742 pounds full

• hogshead, 1 silver 60 copper

• 64 gallons capacity, 120 pounds empty, 655 pounds full

• grand barrel, 1 silver 20 copper

• 40 gallon capacity, 15 pounds empty, 350 pounds full

• barrel, 1 silver

• 32 gallons capacity, 32 pounds empty, 300 pounds full

• kilderkin, 30 copper (roughly equivalent to a modern American "beer keg")

• 16 gallons capacity, 13 pounds empty, 147 pounds full

• firkin, 17 copper (roughly equivalent to a modern American "pony keg")

• 8 gallons capacity, 6.5 pounds empty, 73 pounds full

• eighth barrel, 8 copper

• 4 gallon capacity, 3 pounds empty, 36 pounds full

• large leather bucket (may be sealable?), 6 silver

• 3 gallon capacity, 1 pound empty, 26 pounds full

• stoneware gallon jug, 4 silver

• 1 gallon capacity, 5 pounds empty, 13 pounds full

• stoneware half-gallon jug, 2 silver

• 0.5 gallon capacity, 3.5 pounds empty, 7.5 pounds full