Metals

A **metal**, *(Icelandic: málmi)* is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typically ductile (can be drawn into wires) and malleable (they can be hammered into thin sheets). These properties are the result of the metallic bond between the atoms or molecules of the metal.

A metal may be a chemical element such as iron; an alloy such as stainless steel; or a molecular compound.

## List of Metals

### Adamantine

Adamantine is an alloy formed from **adamant**, a jet-black metal found deep underground in Svartalfheim. Like the metal, Adamantine shares it's jet black hue, but has a green sheen when viewed by candlelight or a purple-white sheen when viewed by magical light. Other sources of Adamant include the veins of Jotunnheim's enormous mountain ridge, or a single boulder of the substance that fell into the oceans off the coast of Asgard. Adamantine is extremely difficult to produce, requiring high forging temperatures and a very delicate procedure. It is composed of five parts adamant, two parts silver, and one part electrum. Most smiths that specialized in producing adamantine were dwarves.

Adamantine melts at 3410ºC, requiring incredibly hot magical fires to work with. The alloy doesn't react with seawater, and brine is sometimes used to give the alloy an additional shine. It was found that Adamantine cannot naturally rust or corrode, although it is far from indestructable. The alloy is a good conductor of heat, electricity and magic.

Adamantine is the material used to forge several items, most notable of which is the masks of the Cult of Fenrir, which were capable of conducting and storing magical energy so the wearer of the mask could reuse the spell energy for their own purposes. Adamantine is also used to forge Magic-Dampening Manacles, and small slivers of the substance are supercharged to make Dimstone, a stone-like material that dampens arcane and divine magic in a radius around it, by using Adamantine to absorb it.

As a very powerful metal, Adamantine sells in most forges for between 400 and 5,000 GP.

### Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties. Brass is used in middle-income regions as a popular material for household items, as it's orange-yellow colour resembles gold when in light, and it's low melting point makes it easy to smith. Brass has a melting point of 900°C. As a very common alloy, whose components are found in all nine realms, Brass tools and armour sell for quite cheap, with raw brass going for around 3 SP in most markets.

### Bronze

A red-ish brown metal. An alloy of copper and tin. 4 SP

### Cold Iron

Cold iron is iron mined deep underground. It is forged using a special process at lower temperatures than normal iron or steel in order to preserve its delicate properties. Blades forged with Cold Iron aree believed to be more effective against spirits and the undead, as well as being effective against creatures that utilise fire. Cold iron weapons normally cost twice as much as their standard counterparts. Cold Iron has also been known to be used to create chains to stop magical entities from teleporting.

### Copper

This well-known pure metal has a distinctive pinkish sheen. In most currencies, copper coins are used as the lowest value coin, as they are extremely common. Raw copper costs 5 SP.

### Electrum

Electrum is a naturally occurring silver-gold alloy.

### Gold

Gold was a pure precious metal that was used in Asgardian Centralised Currencies as their most valuable coin. It is resistant to nearly all acids in the Realms, with aqua regia being one of the only acids known to melt it. Gold was prized by many wizards for its magical properties. If refined and treated with the right magical processes, gold could become as hard as steel and used to forge effective armor and weapons, which could hold a number of enchantments, even those that conflicted one another. While it offered significant protection against fire and acid, golden armor was twice as heavy as steel and more encumbering.

### Iron

Iron is a non-precious metal mined widely in the nine realms. The metal readily rusts in moist air, occurs native in meteorites and combined in most igneous rocks. It is the most used of metals.

### Mithral

Mithral, also spelled mithril, and known as truemetal among the dwarves, was a precious metal produced from ore found in the lower realms (Niflheim, Muspelheim and Helheim). Mithral ore appeared as a silver-and-black mineral in its natural form, and became a shining silvery-blue when it was forged. Whenever a magical spell or spell-like ability struck an item forged from mithral the results were somewhat unpredictable. Seemingly half the time this occurred, the individual in possession of the mithral item became partially and temporarily protected from magic's harmful effects.

Items cast from mithral weighed only half as much as similar items forged from steel. Since pieces of armor made from this valuable metal were very light, they allowed the wearer to make better use of their natural agility and were less restrictive on spellcasting.

### Silver

Silver is a precious metal that was used all across the nine realms. This relatively common valuable metal is the most associated with and suitable for magic.

### Starfall Ore

Starfall Ore is a material found in objects that fall through the boundry between realms. It's origin is unknown, but it is theorised to be an alloy of Iron and an unknown element found between realms. When objects fall between realms using methods aside from magic or Yggdrasil, they have a chance of this ore being formed.

Starfall ore is extremely prized for it's qualities. The ore is very lightweight, but is incredibly durable. It has a melting point of nearly 5000ºC, meaning that only some of the strongest forges in the world are capable of even softening it. It is also difficult to work with, requirering intense levels of smithing skill and dedication, as the process can take days. In addition, Starfall Ore occurs naturally as the element Starfallium. The chemical properties of Starfallium make it difficult to work with, mainly because it has an Atomic (Proton) number of 258. This makes the element highly unstable and radioactive, which makes it incredibly useful for weapons as they can hold extremely powerful reactions on impact, but it also means working with the element comes with a high risk of radiation poisoning.

Stafall Ore is the material from which Thor Odinson's hammer Mjolnir is forged.