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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
How would the demand outstrip supply? Unless you're assuming that magic has just been discovered, that enchanter is making three every single year. And the rings don't wear out. Meanwhile, the enchanters live a very long time. If one pursues that career for a hundred years, that's 300 times as many rings as he needs himself. One out of 300 enchanters working on the item would keep up with population growth even with a lazy 20-year career. In the steady state, there's more rings of Halt Aging that they'll know what to do with. It's only the first few years where the early adopters will be paying a lot.
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300 rings, and a population of... how much? Think of how much it costs to hire a skilled tradesman, and consider that an enchanter is an extremely rare and extremely highly skilled tradesman. That ring has to sell for enough to justify his devoting just under a third of a year to the very gruelling work of making one. Remember that enchanting doesn’t allow days off. Actually it does, but that lengthens the time by two days for each day off.