Cryosteel

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**Cryosteel** is an alloy that is created by mixing iron and gelidium together. However, cryosteel is notorious for being difficult to create; gelidium is immensely fickle and needs to be prepared perfectly, or else the result will be nigh useless, often fracturing or shattering with ease. As a result, genuine cryosteel tools are astronomically expensive and rare.

## Description

Visually, cryosteel is very similar to iron, but has a distinctive, pale blue coloration to it. Cryosteel is almost always cool to the touch.

## Usage

### Weaponry

Cryosteel is primarily used to make bladed weapons, such as swords, polearms and axes; cryosteel weapons bear the considerable sharpness that gelidium-edged weapons have, with the durability of steel; the primary weakness of gelidium, corrosion via heat, is mostly unseen in cryosteel, although extreme heat can still damage cryosteel tools.

A notable example of mass-forged cryosteel weaponry is the Blizzblades, although they are incredibly rare; however, the Glacirenda, a claymore located within the Ice Clan's weapons vault, has a blade composed of genuine cryosteel. The Ice Clan may possess a few sets of Blizzblades as well, although this is not confirmed, nor is it confirmed if they are modern or ancient.

### Shields

Cryosteel has also been used to create shields. These shields are roughly the same as a typical steel shield in terms of defensive strength, but have the added benefit of being able to deflect weak, Ice-based attacks from opponents. Cryosteel shields are often decorated with frontal spikes, to serve as a secondary offensive option for the user.

## Special Properties

Cryosteel carries over the latent sub-alignment of Ice that gelidium has. The blades of weapons forged with cryosteel are always cold to the touch, and a user who can already manipulate Ice can easily channel their own elemental energy through the blade; as such, Ice-aligned attacks made directly with the blade, such as Freezing Slash, are strengthened by roughly 20%.

## Related Materials

* **Gelidium** - An uncommon ore that is often used to coat the edges of bladed weapons to give them a considerably sharper edge. However, gelidium-edged weapons are notoriously difficult to maintain, as they are not only fragile, but the gelidium in them can be corroded by excessive heat. Cryosteel was developed to be a better alternative to gelidium-edged weapons, but no one counted on cryosteel being even harder to create than gelidium-edged weapons.
* **Pagodium Steel** - An extremely rare alloy created by mixing Cryosteel with Petratin, giving it the Elemental attributes of both its base alloys (Ice and Earth). Given the incredibly difficulty of producing cryosteel, one of the necessary ingredients, little is actually known of pagodium steel, and genuine pagodium steel weapons and tools are extremely hard to come by, sometimes thought to simply be nonexistent.

## Users

*Anyone who uses cryosteel in any form, for any use.*

* **Kilian** - He wields a Demon-forged Blizzblade.

## Notes/Trivia

* Cryosteel is, obviously, a portmanteau of *cryo* and *steel*.