Lapidary

Stones, and metals and natural alloys as found or won from ore.

  • Actinate: A natural blend of platinum-group metals that current metallurgy cannot separate.

  • Amber: Fossil tree resin, a niche store of value in parts of Eldland and a Skeldic trade good.

  • Calamine: A zinc ore, known and extractable in some places; high-purity calamine is a valuable commodity.

  • Copper: Coinage metal of the copper piece, which is round and the same size as the silver piece and is told from it by color and weight.

  • Electrum: Metal of the square electrum piece, a semi-archaic regional coin preferred in free cities and independent trading centers.

  • Gleam: A soft, ductile metal that can be hammered into foil and onto iron as a rust-proof coating.

  • Gold: Coinage metal of the gold piece, occasional in large-scale and inter-regional exchange; dwarves treat gold as the pinnacle store of wealth.

  • Iridium: A very dense metal that has not been isolated and occurs only within Actinate; the name is a referent for world-builders and is not used in-game.

  • Iron: Metal worked by smiths; deposits that yield superior metal are sought, and control of them gives leverage over arms production.

  • Lead: A metal treated in Viniculum exactly as in the mundane world, with all its alloys, pewter among them.

  • Mercury: A metal treated as in the mundane world, with the same dangers, and vital to the production of Arbor Dianae.

  • Mithril: A valuable, lightweight metal that dwarves take immense risks to acquire.

  • Nickel: A metal found in ores that is metallurgically a poison, so its presence makes an ore deserving of more purification.

  • Osmium: A very dense metal that has not been isolated and occurs only within Actinate; the name is a referent for world-builders and is not used in-game.

  • Platinum: Legacy coinage metal of the Velasian era; platinum coin is valid but extremely rare, and human societies cannot melt it, though some dwarven holds can, with effort.

  • Silver: Coinage metal of the silver piece, and the basis of hacksilver: cut or broken silver valued by weight rather than form.

  • Star-steel: Meteoritic iron, found as fallen masses and worked by hammering.

  • Tin: Metal essential to bronze, with limited sources, and so a candidate for economic control.