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What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« on: September 11, 2010, 10:10:14 AM »
   I am currently reading the Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide. It lists a number of mundane items. One of which is a magnet. It describes using said magnet to pick up steel, mithril and adamantine. I have never considered either mithril or adamantine to be ferrous metals before. In your campaigns are these metals effected by magnetic fields?

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Re: What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 10:24:00 AM »
I thought mithril was supposed to be yttrium silver.
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Re: What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 04:24:53 PM »
Nah, mithral is obviously aluminum.

The article's author neglected to point out that aluminum can be found in pure form, but only exceedingly rarely.
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Re: What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 04:36:28 PM »
Smelting bauxite is pretty hard to do I guess, and mithril as it's used in fantasy seems to be stronger aluminium.
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Re: What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2010, 04:45:02 AM »
I have a material in my world called "Kobold's Ore" which is a magic version of cobalt which is ferrous.

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Re: What fantasy metals are ferrous?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2010, 01:13:35 PM »
well, I definitely see adamantine as being ferrous.

I've always associated mithril with titanium, which is paramagnetic (as opposed to ferromagnetic)

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