Adamantine: What does it look like?

Gnome Berzerker · Sep 9, 2003

My character just got an adamantine breastplate.

What color is adamantine? What's it look like?

shilsen · Sep 9, 2003

Pitch-black, IMC. I've always thought of Turin Turambar's sword from the "Silmarillion" as my prototype for an adamantine weapon.

Ferret · Sep 9, 2003

Real dark purple.

andargor · Sep 9, 2003

Ferret said:
Real dark purple.

Wasn't there a recent thread about the exact same subject?

Andargor

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Sep 9, 2003

I've always thought of it as a rusty and dark yellow color...

FoxWander · Sep 9, 2003

In 2E D&D adamantine was described as being a shiny black color. I've always pictured it looking similar to hematite but a deeper black, like black chrome.

Croaker · Sep 10, 2003

To go waaaay back, in Gary Gygax's _Gord the Rogue_ books, adamantine was sky-blue in color.

Magic Slim · Sep 10, 2003

I always thought it was Golden... weird...

Doesn't the "black" adamantine come from the fact that the drow used it (in AD&D) to construct their powerful weapons that were turned to dust when exposed to sunlight?

Slim

Galethorn · Sep 10, 2003

I belive drow use Adamantite rather than Adamantine. I've always thought of what the drow use as being...well...if you know what silver looks like, and how close it is to white in color, imagine metal that has the same relation to black.

But Adamantine, on the other hand, I think of as looking almost like meteoric iron, in that it has alternating bands of lighter and darker steel-like color...like This, but shinier...After all, Adamantine is usually described as meteoric, and I think meteoric iron (as well as pattern-welded steel) look really cool, without being gaudy, like a bright green metal would be, for instance.