Talk:Adamantine

A few questions: If it's so heavy that a sword made out of it would be as heavy as a house, why do people want it? What use is it? And how do people suggest using it to harvest ironroot if you couldn't actually make any useful harvesting tools out of it? --Idran 12:08, 8 February 2007 (PST)

Sounds like humans and other reasonably strengthed races are looking into the question of how to actually -use- the metal, one area of exploration being alloys. I imagine there are other races with strength enough to use it, though--dragons come to mind, griffons, orks, etc.

I also think that one possibility is to just lower the scale: make knives or other hand weapons. It'd be silly for a dragon to fly around with a sword in hand, but a sort of thing that slips over the hand with metal claws on it, that'd be another thing.

There's enchantment as a possibility--to make the metal lighter--but that's cheap. Or you could find a way to make the weapon sentient and--wait for it--pull around it's own weight.

My Q is this: are we talking the average Gaeran-/Doman-sized house (which begs the question, how large is that?) or the average real-world house (which, really, begs the same question--I'm imagining a 3-room ranch).

--Dia 16:05, 8 February 2007 (PST)