The Metallurgist

**The Metallurgist** is a yearly publication by the technical publishing house of Wiley and Sons Printing focused on mining, mineralogy, metallurgy, and blacksmithing. Like its sister volumes, it is sold in bound volumes or as single pages for tuppence a piece.

*And, like its counterparts, it serves as a repository for metals, metallurgical techniques, etc, that may otherwise continue to be overlooked. This article is a WIP.* *At some point it may be arranged into actual issues and written up IC.* *Please see User\_blog:Arathorstories/Wiley\_and\_Sons for questions or concerns.*

## Fuels and Byproducts

Peat is found in the Sumprushes. Also the Wetlands, as expected.

### Coal

Byproducts in use include coal tar, used in Gilneas to waterproof ship hulls. Produced by the cooking of coal into coke for the furnace.

## Ores and Alloys

Smoky iron, a carbon-rich iron ore, may be found in Windshear Crag.

Cinnabar, the highly toxic mercurial ore, may be found in the South of Azeroth, where it was exploited for statuary and for pigments by the savage trolls.

Bronze, employed by the pre-Collapse Orcs of Draenor, the Vrykul, the tolvir, the Pandaren... Used as decoration in Night Elf armour.

Rethban ore, from the Redridge mountains, is of little use except for the making of pigments. Similar to hematite in its appearance and pigment making (producing a good, flat, dark, reddish hue, it is nonetheless much weaker than iron when smelted down.

Brass, employed by the Pandaren, dwarves

Quicksilver, nigh-unbreakable properly forged but prone to brittleness under high temperature or if improperly tempered.

Bloodstone, mined in Arathi and areas of Stonetalon, is a blood-red ore that must be alloyed with iron to be of any use. It is extremely brittle on its own.

Iron worked by the Ogres *Notes here are for 'unexpected' iron workers. Everyone else uses them. Found in abundance in Desolace, Eastern Mulgore.* Fire giants too.  Utilized for Dark Iron made Golems.

Truesilver, much lighter and stronger than steel, is proof against Worgen.

Mithril, hard as iron, half as heavy. Used in Goblin battlesuits.

Arcanite, extraordinarily flexible.Useful for high-pressure steam containment.

Thorium, dense as lead, strong as steel.

Lead, utilized for aqueducts in Dalaran. Used for pillows on Kezan (?!? Guess that irradiated garbage necessitates extreme measures...)

Some kind of Obsidian alloy with the Defias.

Quicksilver (contrary to it's real-life equivalent) is an extremely strong, solid metal at room temperatures, but melts and softens under intense heat.

Mountainfoot iron. Found in Azshara, mountainfoot iron is a natural alloy, consisting of 88% pure Fe and an unknown number of impurities. It is extremely brittle, but available in mass quantities. *It may, like Smoky Iron, consist mostly of carbon-rich impurities. High carbon content makes a very hard, but very brittle, steel.*

Azsharite - the excreta of the Stone Giants of Azshara - is a malleable, strong crystalline material that can be used to hold and control fel energies. It can also be utilized to focus and concentrate other forms of energy.

Iron, thorium and mithril used to create shredders.

Tin. Abundant in Eastern Mulgore.

### Copper

May be mined near Orgrimmar. Orc spyglasses.

### Gold

May be found in the Fargodeep and Jasperlode mines of Elwynn Forest, once in abundant quantities in the Deadmines though much diminished and increasingly non-competitive. Desolace.

A continuing popular choice for dentistry among the civilized peoples, gold fillings are beginning to increasingly appear among 'savage' breeds.

Even utilized as... chamber pots. How low is fallen this most wondrous of metals.

Utilized in Tol'vir jewellery and ornamentation.

Found in abundant quantities chasing the elegant Vortex Pinnacle, with bronze.

Employed by the Naga.

### Platinum

Utilized by the Titans, and the Lokenite Vrykul.

### Saronite

Found in large quantities in Whisper Gulch, Grizzly Hills, beneath Icecrown Citadel, beneath Azjol'Nerub, beneath... everywhere in Northrend, really. In particular, under Wintergarde
It is resistant to light spells, nature spells, druidic magic, and induces nausea in those who handle it.

### Steel

Employed by the Vrykul and in the creation of Steel Vrykul and their armaments.

Supposedly the best workers of it are the Thorium Brotherhood.

Utilized as the backbone of the Harvest Golems.

Lightforged Iron, proof against Evil, has been employed since the Second War.

Used to build Warsong Hold.

Utilized, with gold chasing, for Gnome battlesuits.

Felsteel, though a spiritual danger, is nigh-indestructible by conventional means.

### Titanium

Used, at the least, in bows. Also used for Lokenite Vrykul.

# Blacksmithing

Iron cables made by gnomes - and used to build Gnomeregan itself.

## Additives

When baked under extreme heat, a mixture of the fangs of cave spiders from the Wetlands (affected by incendicite's ambient heat) and ground chimaera horn can be used to reinforce metal wire for the purpose of chainmail.

The corals of the southern coast of the Wetlands can be smelted down to produce a ferrite-calcite additive that imbues armour with extraordinary strength and flexibility.

Highperch Wyvern egg shells may similarly be cooked with extreme heat to create the base of a strong lacquer used for the purpose of improving the durability and rust-resistance of mail links.

The otherwise overlooked azurite ore endemic to areas of Hillsbrad's southern coastline, with intense heat, also serves to enhance the end-quality of steel by providing higher control over the end-carbon level.

## Armour

The barding of Paladin steeds is traditionally constructed of blessed arcanite plating on a coat of runecloth.

Silver pauldrons for Paladins, with gold detailing on the plate.

1. ↑ Quest: For Peat's Sake
2. ↑ Brutal Armour
3. ↑ Cinnabar Bijou
4. ↑ Pendant of the Scarab Storm
5. ↑ Carved Bronze Mirror
6. ↑ Tiny Bronze Scorpion, Thorned Necklace
7. ↑ Wolfheart
8. ↑ Rethban Ore
9. ↑ Karsh Steelbender dungeon notes
10. ↑ More MAgic and Mayhem
11. ↑ Lands of Mystery
12. ↑ Quest: Hot and Cold
13. ↑ Jade Hunters
14. ↑ Cut Short
15. ↑ Mekkatorque short story
16. ↑ Quest: Anatoly Will Talk
17. ↑ Campaign Setting
18. ↑ Lands of Mystery
19. ↑ Campaign Setting
20. ↑ Arcanite Steam-Pistol
21. ↑ Campaign Setting
22. ↑ The Last Guardian
23. ↑ Gallywix short
24. ↑ Foe Reaper 5000
25. ↑ Karsh Steelbender
26. ↑ Quest: A Quota to Meet
27. ↑ Quest: Azsharite, Quest: The Formation of Felbane.
28. ↑ Quest: Mysterious Azsharite
29. ↑ Quest:Zinfizzlex's Portable Shredder Unit
30. ↑ Lands of Mystery
31. ↑ World of Warcraft Comic #17
32. ↑ Wolfheart
33. ↑ Quest: Gold Dust Exchange
34. ↑ Deadmines dungeon journal
35. ↑ Desolace
36. ↑ Goldtooth, Tooth with Gold Filling
37. ↑ Vortex Pinnacle dungeon journal
38. ↑ Trident of Naz'jan
39. ↑ Platinum Disks of -x- from Wintergrasp, Platinum discs
40. ↑ Rifle of the Platinum Guard
41. ↑ Quest: The Search for Slinkin
42. ↑ Quest: Pure Evil
43. ↑ Halls of Lightning's Steel Vrykul
44. ↑ Legends, Volume 1
45. ↑ Magic and Mayhem
46. ↑ Quest: The Doomed Fleet
47. ↑ Quest: Taking Back Mightstone Quarry
48. ↑ Mekkatorque short story
49. ↑ Quest: Buying Time
50. ↑ Titanium Compound Bow
51. ↑ Titanium Vanguard
52. ↑ Mekkatorque short story
53. ↑ Furen's Instructions
54. ↑ Quest: Iron Coral
55. ↑ Quest: Sunscorched Shells
56. ↑ Brutal Armour
57. ↑ Quest:Collection of Goods
58. ↑ Of Blood and Honour