Ores of Tealon

## Normal Ores

usually can be bought with money and normally spread in the whole Tealon.

## Copper

Copper is the cheapest ore in Tealon. It is usually used as a material for weapons & armour. In most cases, copper is not the only metal used, usually being mixed with iron. Suitable for beginner adventurers. (Sometimes mixed with gold to make fake gold/Weld. Making of fake Weld/gold is punishable by execution when caught.)

### **Value**

Copper ores are usually 1 Silpen (1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower depending on the market.

#### **Price**

Copper ingots are usually 3 Silpen (1 kilogram each).

##### **Additional Prices**

1. Copper weapons are usually 6~20 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and types of weapons.
2. Copper light armours are usually 8 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
3. Copper medium armours are usually 25 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
4. (Copper don’t have heavy armour)

## **Iron**

Iron is the most common ore in Tealon. It is usually used as a material for weapons & armoury, and is the basic material of steel. Because it is heavier than copper, it is relatively slower than copper Armor. Most common adventurers wear iron armor and swords.

### **Value**

Iron ores are usually 3 Silpen (1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by market.

Iron ingots are usually 10 Silpen. (1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by market.

### **Prices**

1. Iron **weapons** are usually 15~40  Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and types of weapons.
2. Iron **light armours** are usually 20 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
3. Iron **medium armours** are usually 50 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
4. Iron **heavy armours** are usually 75 Silpen. Can be higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.

## **Steel**

Steel is an alloy based on iron. To make something out of steel, Need to be an adept blacksmith. Mostly used by knights or veteran adventurers.

It's expensive, hard to make, and heavier than iron, so the movement of wearers are slower with steel armour. The quality and performance of steel weapons/armors begin to diverge greatly depending on the skills of blacksmiths. Welds are usually used to buy weapons and armor made of steel or above ore.

Only steel weapons or above weapons can be enchanted.

### **Value**

*The Below are the values of steel.*

1. **ingots** are usually 5~10 Silpen(1 kilogram each).  Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker.
2. **weapons** are usually 50 Silpen ~ 1 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and type of weapons.
3. **light armours** are usually 50 Silpen~2 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
4. **medium armours** are usually 1~3 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
5. **heavy armours** are usually 1.8~5 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.

(Enchanted weapons/armour prices are usually twice of normal prices, can be higher or lower by which guild or guild and magician.)

## **Tungsten**

Tungsten is more durable than steel, but it is hard to enchant, and also rarer than Iron and harder to produce than steel as well. It's usually used for  Veteran adventurers. Enchanted steel is more expensive than tungsten. Knights have money for enchanted steel but most adventurers don’t have enough money for that. Rarely, Some wealthy adventurers/mercenaries use Enchanted tungsten weapon/armour. Very expensive but would be worth it.

### **Value**

*Below are values of Tungsten.*

1. **Ores** are usually 10~12 Silpen(1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by market
2. **Ingots** are usually 18~20 Silpen(1 kilogram each).  Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker.
3. **Weapons** are usually 1~3 Weld. Can be heavily higher or or lower by which guild or maker.
4. **Light armours** are usually 2~5 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
5. **Medium armours** are usually 4~6 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.
6. **Heavy armours** are usually 5~8 Weld. Can be heavily higher or lower by which guild or maker, and armour parts.

(Enchanted weapons/armour prices are usually three times of normal prices, can be higher or lower by which guild or guild and magician.)

## **Silver**

Silver is the basic material of Silpens. Silver is used to make trinkets, and the material has a characteristic that weakens magic. Silver has the power to suppress curses. For that reason most cursed people carry silver. However, there is a slight difference depending on the intensity of the curse. Weak curses can be cured with taking silver closely for a while, but silver has no effect on strong curses. Because of the disposition of silver, it can also be used to make weapons. Enchantments to silver weapons are useless due to the silver characteristics that weaken magic.

### **Value**

*Below are the values of silver.*

1. **Ores** are usually 80 Silpen. (1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by value of Silpen.
2. **Ingots** are usually  1 Weld.(1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by value of Silpen.
3. (one Silpen is 10g of silver)
4. **Weapons** are usually 5~10  Weld. Can be higher or lower by value of Silpen, which guild or maker, and types of weapons.

## **Gold**

Gold is a symbol of wealth. Gold is the basic material of Welds and are also mostly used as trinkets. The rich have gold as Welds, Ingots and ores. In reality, gold is not actually that special, just expensive and shiny.

### **Value**

1. Gold **ores** are usually 95 Weld(1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by value of Weld.
2. Gold **ingots** are usually 100 Weld.(1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by value of Weld.
3. (one Weld is 10 g of Weld)

## **Special ores**

Made by special processing of ordinary minerals, or of a particularly high quality type of mineral, It is incomprehensively stronger than normal ores and some special type ores can be stronger then rare ores. Very expensive or will need more than just money alone to get it.

#### **Wootz steel**

Wootz steel is basically steel, but using the best quality of iron and using secret processing which produces excellent steel in all aspects, not comparable to ordinary steel. Only a few best, loyal, and trustable blacksmiths of the Golden Weld Association know about where the iron mine for wootz steel is and what the secret process is. Wootz steel is very expensive, especially armour price as it is the same as a house. But still, wootz steel products are one of the most popular products of the Golden Weld Association.

##### **Value**

(Value of wootz steel is Golden Weld Association price)

1. **ingots** are 5 Weld(1 kilogram each).
2. **weapons** are  15~30 Weld.
3. **light armours** are 25 Weld.
4. **medium armours** are 40 Weld.
5. **heavy armours** are 60 Weld.

(Enchanted weapons/armour prices are usually twice of normal prices, can be higher or lower by which guild or guild and magician.)

#### **Damascus steel**

Damascus steel is special. It’s made by processing steel once more and takes a great deal of time to produce, so it is only used in weapons, especially only swords. It has two grades for Damascus swords. First, original Damascus steel, in which only wootz steel is used for the process. Second, half-Damascus steel, which is made by normal steels for the process. Half-Damascus is half price of original Damascus steel but still harder then tungsten or normal steels. Damascus steels are very, very expensive and only sold at Golden Weld Association like wootz steel.

##### **Value**

(Value of Damascus steel is Golden Weld Association price)

1. Original Damascus steel **ingots** are 20 Weld(1 kilogram each).
2. Original Damascus steel **weapons** are  40~80 Weld.
3. Half-Damascus steel **ingots** are 10 Weld(1 kilogram each).
4. Half-Damascus steel **weapons** are  20~40 Weld.

(Enchanted weapons/armour prices are usually twice of normal prices, can be higher or lower by which guild or guild and magician.)

### **Oriharcone**

Oriharcone is made with pure silver. Giving a lot of pressure on pure silver over a very long period of time, e.g 6 month~1 year, then it looks a little golden, but more shiny and white. It doesn't really become golden but the color becomes clearly different from normal silver. Not that it is harder than silver, but silver characteristics become very strong.

Can cleanse normal curses and protects from curses, suppressing strong curses.

Oriharcone does not end at making magics weak, oriharcone can absorb magic and can recover mana from that absorbed magic. But if magic is too strong to absorb, then oriharcone loses its own color and becomes pure silver again. Of course very expensive, rare, and hard to find. Will need more than money. It’s impossible to make an armour with Oriharcone. Usually used the same as silver, like using oriharcone instead of gold or using it as a weapon.

##### **Value**

*Below refer to Oriharcone*

1. **Ingots** are usually  200 Weld or something the seller wants.(1 kilogram each). Can be higher or lower by seller or buyer.
2. **Weapons** are usually 250~400 Weld or something the seller wants. Can be higher or lower by seller or buyer.

### **Meteoric iron**

*(permission needed of game masters or staff members to use this material.)*

Meteoric iron is rare and hard to find, hard to process, and hard to use. It is a mysterious ancient ore. Finding meteoric iron buried deep in Tealon is a goal of all miners. Meteoric iron is harder than steel and has a great deal of magical power. Using trinkets which are made by meteoric iron will give an almost infinite mana pool. Weapons made by meteoric iron can be used as a magical staff at the same time. Meteoric iron can change shape without magic, and if you have a ring, the ring can suddenly change size and shape if you want. Also meteoric iron is still iron, it means it can be steel, Can be wootz steel, can be damascus steel.  Meteoric iron is a dream for everyone.

##### **Value**

Price not measurable, can be tons of Welds, revenge for someone, killing thousands of army, anything.