The weight reduction may improve the category of the armor from heavy to medium or medium to light. Darksteel behaves like steel but is lighter, and when coated in certain oils whose formula is known to few and heated in even a small fire, it becomes molten, and can be poured into molds even simple sand molds to be cast into a new shape. Moreover, darksteel is durable and takes new enchantments readily, even if it is already dweomer-laden. All of this makes darksteel very valuable to those who know of its existence. It is silvery in hue when polished or cut, but its exposed surfaces have a deep, gleaming purple luster.
Items made of darksteel automatically succeed in any saving throw vs. electricity and lightning.
Shiny gray, rustproof. Metallurgically distilled from iron. The best Trobyn Armories weapons are forged from True Iron by master crafters. Shiny and bright coppery red. Metallurgically distilled from copper.