Metals

## Hunting for Metals

Throughout the course of your journey, you'll sometimes be presented with the opportunity to gain these rare metals. After you bring them home, you'll need to process these metals and ores in order to properly make use of them. Metals can be found as either **refined** or **unrefined**.

When looking through rocks, mountains, dungeons and the like, you might come across the metals in their natural state, **unrefined**. It is at this moment that you might be able to mine quite a bit of it. After making an appropriate check with the appropriate tools, you'll be able to take whatever you can get (provided you can carry all of it) all the way home in order to refine it!

Other times, you'll come across the metals already in a **refined** state, and ready for forging. These can come in the form of ingots, or even full-blown armors and weapons!

**Remember: When refined, an unrefined piece of metal will yield half its weight.** For example, picking up 50lbs of unrefined Adamantium will yield you 25lbs of refined Adamantium. This can be further transformed into an ingot, which can be sold at stores.

 5lbs Refined Metal
 1 Metal Ingot

## The Affinity Metals

The following metals can be used to craft Weapons and Armor in place of steel: **Legendium, Arcanite, Aetherium, Orichalcum.** Using these metals require an investment of a specific weight of the needed metal on top of its crafting cost.

* Gear that is crafted with these metals are considered **Magical**.
* Damage from **weapons** of these kinds are considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
* Upgrades to **weapons** made with affinity metals require **attunement** to the weapon in order to be used, except for **Compounded Alloy**, which confers upgrades to the weapon even **without attunement**.

### Legendium

Characterized by its extremely lustrous and myriad-color appearance, Legendium can be most easily found in other planes of existence, though it can still be found in the Prime Material Plane scarcely. These places include the Feywild, Shadowfell, and the Elemental Planes.

### Arcanite

Arcanite is a normally unassuming metal, and is therefore quite hard to find simply by looking. It can be most easily identified by splitting its mineral in half, where the inside is characterized by watery, wavy, dark and light patterns, which also tend to reflect in weapons and armor that it is created with. These can be found in the Underdark, most easily in the lowerdark.

### Aetherium

Of a heavy pearlescent white and almost fluid-like appearance, Aetherium is an old metal where its use dates back to the age of Titans. Legend and Myth has it that Aetherium is borne out of the gods. Believers of the Hemel describe it to be tears from the Gods, and believers of the Demiurges believe it to be byproducts of the creation of Mera. These can most easily be found in ancient cities in their refined form.

### Orichalcum

Orichalcum is a dangerous metal that has been thought to originate from the Hells. That being said, it is also one of the youngest metals to make their appearance in Myrias for that very same reason. Orichalcum can be found in the deepest shafts of Blackvein, the infamously dangerous mines of Ravenhome, as well as the Shattered Crown, where the largest concentration of fiends can be found.

## The Immutable Metals

The following metals can only be used to craft Armor: **Adamantium, Mithral.**

* Armors crafted with Adamantium or Mithral are still categorized as Iron, and so share the same upgrade paths as iron armors.
* An armor cannot be *both* Adamantine and Mithral.

### Mithral

Mithral is an uncharacteristically lightweight metal that is most plentiful in veins across Myrias, though most known mines have been cleaned out.

### Adamantium

Adamantium is extremely polished and hard, ranking among the likes of diamond in sturdiness, and normally used in high-class siege weaponry and armors of royalty. It's gained a reputation of being a rich-man's alloy.