From: Raymond E. Feist
Date: 28 October 2000
No straight answer.
There were other races and they had wars and the like, and had technologies, so they used up lots of the metals, before humans showed up. Some of them are mentioned in passing during the tower of testing scene in the author's preferred edition of Magician.
Best, R.E.F.
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