Nobody said anything about isolating Vanadium. I merely said it was present in the ores. I can appreciate you doing due diligence but it would do you no harm to take a kinder tone to prevent embarrasing moments like these where you are categorically incorrect when you assume I would do something so silly. It's not like I am building a giant robot or anything.
I am going to make a barbarian nation which, while having a small population, has superior metallurgic abilities due to presence of vanadium in the ores and crucible tech i.e. the wootz process
I am in no position to edit the map, but I claim the northern extremity of the eastern continent from top to the first narrowing shortly after the snow ceases until I get back from the graveyard shift.