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<blockquote data-quote="EvanNave55" data-source="post: 6868858" data-attributes="member: 6789374">I agree that trading over centuries sharing what they have and taking care of their possessions would be enough for elves to have some metal they use for things an alternative is a from of bio-metal.In pathfinder there is a kind of material called livingsteel. These trees suck up minerals over time and because of this are extremely tough (you have to use special saws to cut them or wait tell they fall on their own) but it can be used to amke a special material called living steel. This is even harder than steel (can damage other weapons when they hit the living steel) and in pathfinder can slowly heal itself over time.A solution to the elves mining metal could be to use this material. They nurture and specially grow these living steel trees and when they finally fall the elves use them to make their weapons. As it is from pathfinder anything made from this would probably have to be considered magic in 5e so you could just keep the metal made from special tree thing and ignore any or all of the other properties (tougher than steel, slowly heals itself) to keep it a mundane metal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EvanNave55, post: 6868858, member: 6789374"] I agree that trading over centuries sharing what they have and taking care of their possessions would be enough for elves to have some metal they use for things an alternative is a from of bio-metal. In pathfinder there is a kind of material called livingsteel. These trees suck up minerals over time and because of this are extremely tough (you have to use special saws to cut them or wait tell they fall on their own) but it can be used to amke a special material called living steel. This is even harder than steel (can damage other weapons when they hit the living steel) and in pathfinder can slowly heal itself over time. A solution to the elves mining metal could be to use this material. They nurture and specially grow these living steel trees and when they finally fall the elves use them to make their weapons. As it is from pathfinder anything made from this would probably have to be considered magic in 5e so you could just keep the metal made from special tree thing and ignore any or all of the other properties (tougher than steel, slowly heals itself) to keep it a mundane metal. [/QUOTE]

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