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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tantavalist" data-source="post: 8449527" data-attributes="member: 7030056">That's pretty much it. Cold Iron is just Iron. And the origins of it being the bane of fairy beings comes from Irish myth. It's not hard to guess what ancient historical events the Celts driving the original rulers of Ireland away because they had iron might be a legendary retelling of.As has been pointed out the issue thus becomes that there's nothing special about fairy beings because in most settings this means any iron weapon (or steel, because attempts to define them as different aren't based on metallurgy) can kill them and if iron is the default metal for making weapons as it is in most RPG settings, no more immunity for fairies.I'd suggest taking the route of making this a feature and not a bug. Any mundane knife can kill the otherwise immortal elf-folk? Well, that would explain why humans are suddenly running everything and the Fae are retreating into hidden strongholds where they're seldom seen. The fact that iron is a poor metal for making bullets out of could also give a reason for monster hunters to use swords in settings where guns would otherwise be the default.</blockquote>