(By one of the miracles granted by the gods, adamantine can also be derived by combining steel and mithral if one knows how. This alloy, of five-eighths adamant to two-eighths silver and one-eighth electrum (itself a natural alloy of silver and gold) retains the hardness of adamant, but combines it with a rugged durability that makes adamantine so hard to shatter that it is the favored substance for the making of war hammer heads, the best nonmithral armor, and harbor chains. A sword made of adamant could slice through most metals but would snap off if struck by another blade or even a smartly wielded wooden cudgel. Adamant is one of the hardest substances known, but it is also brittle. Adamant is rarely found in nature, but when it is, it is always be in large spherical pockets in hardened volcanic flows. This is the pure metal form of the hard, jet-black ferro magnetic ore known as adamantite, from which the famous alloy adamantine is made. Most of the following information is from “ VoLo’s Guide to All Things Magical”.

Steel is an alloy made out of Iron and Carbon.Ī soft, silvery-white metal that is often combined with other metals or used as a layer to protect various metals. This relatively common valuable metal is the most associated with and suitable for magic. This light gray metal with very slight bluish tinge is strong, difficult to melt, and resistant to most chemicals. This silvery-blue, shining metal is derived from soft, glittering, silvery-black ore. Lead is a heavy, grey, soft, malleable, metal. Iron is a silver-white malleable metal that readily rusts in moist air, occurs native in meteorites and combined in most igneous rocks. This well-known pure metal is the softest of workable metallic substances. This well-known pure metal has a distinctive pinkish sheen.

An alloy of copper and tinĬold iron is iron found in a pure state (either meteoric iron or an especially rich ore) and is forged at a lower temperature to preserve its delicate properties. An alloy of copper and zinc.Ī red-ish brown metal. Adamantine is black, but has a clear green sheen in candlelight – a sheen that sharpens to purple-white under the light given off by most magical radiances and by will-o-wisps.Ī yellow-ish metal that somewhat resembles gold. An alloy of adamant (a strong but brittle metal), silver and electrum.

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