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Materials ========= These materials are used by smiths to create armour and weapons. Here is a list of materials, in alphabetical order. In addition to these materials there are many exotic and rare materials in the valley that aren't listed here. Adamantium Adamantium is even more rare than mithril (if that's possible in the first place). It's cost is about the same, and it's little bit heavier than mithril is. There is no material which could protect you better than adamantium. Adamantium is a very strong and protective metal. Aluminium The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness. Quite rare and soft. Bone The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Common, soft and cheap. Brass An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals. Quite common, pretty hard and expensive. Bronze An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous. The proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal. Hard, pretty common and expensive. Chitin Chitin is a common natural polymer that can be found in the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans. It is light, but does not do well against steel and other hard substances. Chitinium silk Very flexible, yet very durable, greyish-blue in colour, this substance is woven by old chitines. The silk produced by chitines is possibly treated with other substances afterwards, but the whole process is a well kept secret, known only by chitine elders. The silk is very light, and can be cut with normal tools with some effort, but makes excellent light-weight armour when layered. Clay A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. It's more common than booze in Wizards' workrooms, and suits worse for armours than Neurotico as a comedian (ie. it's bs). Cloth and Heavy Cloth General clothing made of wool, linen or similar material. Provides little protection but it's cheap. Better than nothing. Copper A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. It is one of the most useful metals in itself. It is being used as money or jewelry in its pure form, and alloyed with tin or zinc to make it more enduring. Cuir-Boulli Leather boiled in oil in order to make it harder. Crystal Stone which internal structure has been re-organized due to intense heat, also making it transparent. The crystal used for weapons is actually of a special sort found only deep under the mountains, near the volcanoes of Icesus. It is less brittle than usual crystal, making it more suitable to use for weapons. Demonhide Very rare material gained from extra-planar creatures, it's basically leather with different attributes. Demonhide receives its name from its first origin, skin of demon. It's heavy, confusingly colored material which can be used as decent armor material for light armours. Diamond A crystalline carbon that usually is nearly colourless. When it is transparent and free from flaws it is highly valued as a precious stone. It is very hard and therefore suitable for weapons, but it is also rare, and finding a diamond large enough to be made into a weapon and cutting it is no easy task. The diamond used for weapons is usually of a slightly flawed or coloured quality, although legends are told about blades made of pure diamond. Dragonscale The scales and hide of dracoforms such as larger wyverns and drakes treated with alchemical solutions to increase their toughness and durability, armours made of this material are as hard as steel and much lighter. Fur The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser. It's common, warm and nice to wear. Gold A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known, is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. It is not very good for armours and weapons because of its softness. However, ceremonial armours and weapons of richer religious cults are often made of gold. Iceron A recently discovered and rare metallic element with striking similarities to ice in appearance. Its properties closely resemble those of titanium, except that it is slighty heavier, though lighter than steel, and has a durability close to mithril. Molten iceron is almost identical to water in appearance, and can be forged into excellent armour and weapons with unique characteristics - solid iceron is translucent, or even transparent if the ore is pure. All of iceron's properties have not been revealed yet, but some people claim the metal is unusually cold to the touch, and impossible to enchant with fire magic. Iron The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms: cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or an fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. It's quite common when considering weapons and armours. Lead One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It's a bit too heavy and soft to be used efficiently in armours, but you can surely get good bludgeons out of it. Leather and Soft Leather The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use. This is the most common material when making light armours. It's cheap, quite light and easy to get. Mithril Mithril is very rare and expensive. It's also one of the lightest materials around compared to it's abilities and hardness. Platinum A metallic element, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It's not a very hard material, but it's quite rare and expensive. Silk The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. It's very fine and quite rare material for clothing, but it doesn't provide very good protection. Silver A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the 'noble' metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. It's not very common or cheap either, but one can make pretty nice weapons and armours out of it. Steel and Fine Steel A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. It's one of the best 'common' materials which can be used for making armours and weapons. Stone Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter. We can't make very good weapons out of it. Tin An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Titanium An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. It's very expensive and rare (almost as rare as mithril), and is good for both armours and weapons because it is light and durable. Wood The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. It's very common and not very suitable for weapons. Although it's often used in clubs.