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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8754303" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I have a great of sympathy for your post and position.&nbsp; Well and thoughtfully expressed, thank you.In terms of the cold iron and fey interaction, I'm still not convinced that the relevant magical significance rests in the natural/artificial dichotomy.&nbsp; I think it may, conceptually, have more to do with the Good Folk being creatures of air and darkness and insubstantiality, visiting from the Otherworld, and of only partial connection to the solid human daylight world.&nbsp; Where iron is in essence a solid, grounding, hard, pragmatic element.The 3e-era invented definition of Cold Iron as a special form of iron mined deep below ground and worked at lower temperatures, or Starglim's definition of &quot;iron that was found in a pure state (either meteoric iron or an especially rich ore) and hammered into shape without being smelted&quot; both seem to instead rely on conceptualizing this special metal as less &quot;artificial&quot; than regular iron, which would seem contradictory to the idea that iron or steel being &quot;artificial&quot; or &quot;unnatural&quot; is what makes them particularly baleful to the fae.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8754303, member: 7026594"] I have a great of sympathy for your post and position. Well and thoughtfully expressed, thank you. In terms of the cold iron and fey interaction, I'm still not convinced that the relevant magical significance rests in the natural/artificial dichotomy. I think it may, conceptually, have more to do with the Good Folk being creatures of air and darkness and insubstantiality, visiting from the Otherworld, and of only partial connection to the solid human daylight world. Where iron is in essence a solid, grounding, hard, pragmatic element. The 3e-era invented definition of Cold Iron as a special form of iron mined deep below ground and worked at lower temperatures, or Starglim's definition of "[I]iron that was found in a pure state (either meteoric iron or an especially rich ore) and hammered into shape without being smelted[/I]" both seem to instead rely on conceptualizing this special metal as [I]less "[/I]artificial" than regular iron, which would seem contradictory to the idea that iron or steel being "artificial" or "unnatural" is what makes them particularly baleful to the fae. [/QUOTE]

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