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)

I'm thinking of something along the lines of a single story, 2 bedroom house made of wood. And the use of Adamantine is that nobody really knows what its use is. Unlike the other metals, there's not a lot of samples of it, and what little they do have they haven't done anything with it. It's been theorized that an alloy of it would be usable, so that's the current plan among smiths. While having an adamantine sword would be sweet for chopping down buildings, they're far from actually processing enough of it to use.

The part about Ironroot is a misnomer, I'll edit that.