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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nevvur" data-source="post: 7337655" data-attributes="member: 6783882">The word orichalcum has Earth historic roots. The exact composition has been a mystery til recently, when some <a href="http://www.newhistorian.com/orichalcum-ingots-discovered-shipwreck/8159/" target="_blank">archaeologists found some</a> in a shipwreck. Apparently it's just an alloy of copper, zinc, and charcoal. The article doesn't specify how they knew it was the orichalcum of antiquity. Was it labeled or something? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />In fantasy literature, the properties vary wildly, unlike other fantasy metals which tend to have more consistent properties (e.g. mithril is very light weight, adamantium is extremely hard). So if you want to follow tradition, orichalcum does whatever you need it to do as a storyteller. As you note, the Tal'dorei campaign guide only mentions it has mysterious properties and the titan blood thing. If the goal is to ascribe it properties based on the campaign guide, the only thing we have to go on is the name of the titan, "The Molten Titan." With this as my only cue, I would treat it as a generically magic metal that's naturally warm to the touch and particularly suitable for powerful enchantments. High quality steel and expert craftsmanship is fine for +1 longswords, but if you need a Holy Avenger, get yourself some orichalcum. Strife Iron, as you noted, doesn't appear to have inherently magical properties. Based on the scant few words spent describing it, I don't get the impression it's even all that rare. I presume the monstrous humanoids who 'mine' it do so because it's easier than traditional mining and smelting of iron ore. If one were inclined to give it inherently magical properties, I would lean toward some kind of corrupting effect. The Strife Emperor was said to have raised his armies by corrupting noble creatures. It might have no effect on the goblinoids who wield it, but might cause problems for regular folk if carried over a long period of time (months/years).</blockquote>

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