Arthosian Metals: The Lost and the Found

Arthosian Metals: The Lost and the Found
by Trnyl Wryllabren

The ancient kingdom of Arthos is famous among smiths for its beautiful works of metallurgy and magic, interwoven into some of the breathtaking artifacts that still survive today. The thirty metals of Arthos, perhaps better analyzed in Sidirodigos, can be classified into three distinct categories: Alchemical metals, Natural metals, and Unnatural metals.
 * Alchemical metals require a magical focus of some sort to create, and usually are used for their appearance rather than their practicality. They can be strong, but are meant primarily to be beautiful.
 * Natural metals are built to have practical purpose, and do not always require the use of a magical focus. This is not to say they cannot be beautiful, but they are traditionally very strong, flexible, or helpful in some other way.
 * Unnatural metals do not necessarily appear to be metals at all, but behave like metals nonetheless. All have magical properties, and none have been successfully reproduced since Arthos mysteriously fell.

List of the Alchemical Metals

 * 1) Arachnium
 * 2) Bladewood
 * 3) Fotiabrass
 * 4) Galaxite *
 * 5) Jadesteel
 * 6) Mirrorsteel
 * 7) Oculiron
 * 8) Oozegold
 * 9) Pondiron
 * 10) Stormsilver *

List of the Natural Metals

 * 1) Fteroferra
 * 2) Ivorite
 * 3) Kalamiron
 * 4) Mnimiron
 * 5) Nightiron
 * 6) Stovestone
 * 7) Stylstone
 * 8) Thicksilver
 * 9) Travixtite
 * 10) Varyastali

List of the Unnatural Metals
* The star indicates that the method for making the metal is completely lost, but samples have been identified and studied
 * 1) Allium **
 * 2) Arctite *
 * 3) Bonehorde Ivorite **
 * 4) Devourite *
 * 5) Godstone **
 * 6) Ignium *
 * 7) Leviathite *
 * 8) Moonsteel *
 * 9) Spectersteel **
 * 10) Stormwrought Iron **

** The double star indicates that the method for making the metal is completely lost, and there are no known existing samples