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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7157387" data-attributes="member: 6803337">It takes industrial processes to heat iron hot enough to melt into liquid.However, you can heat it red-hot over a fire and then beat the iron ingot into a shape.If you are really strong and patient, you can warm the ingot a bit and pound on it with say a big metal mallet until it takes the shape you want - such as a sword blade.That last is a form of 'cold iron' which does not spill any Dwarven blacksmith's secrets.In effect, because you did it the hard way, you get an advantage from it.And there are 49 posts above mine that might be the civilized / sophisticated telling of the truth; I'm trying to sound like a folkloric backwoodsman.</blockquote>