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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal" data-source="post: 2673342" data-attributes="member: 10433">Well, the metals known to the ancients were gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin and mercury. They also knew of arsenic, but I don't think they considered that a metal.Silver : AbjurationSilver is known as the blessed metal, tied to protection, wounding the supernatural, etc.Mercury : TransmutationWith its shifting, moving shape as well as the alchemical lore around it mercury seems to be perfect. Perhaps they wear a vial of it as a pendant.Iron : ConjurationIron is the strong metal, used in forging binding chains. This fits in with the concepts of "binding" outer-planar creatures, the need for "iron will".Tin : EvocationOne way to gauge the purity of tin is to flex it. The squeak that it makes is very distinctive, known as the "cry of tin". It was associated with thunder, and astrologically tied to Jupiter. this might make it a candidate for the creation of forces.Gold : DivinationGold is tied to the sun alchemically and astrologically, the source of light and vision.Lead : NecromancyLead has a distinctive grey color and is unusually heavy. There are also vauge negative connotations with the metal...That leaves copper unassigned along with divination and illusion. Lead would be a good candidate for abjuration as well given its antimagic properties.- Baron Opal</blockquote>