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Penny Drakis

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Lorewise, it is likely that the Kharidian desert has some major deposits due to the extremely slow moving Kharidian Desert Campaign, according to The Song From Before The War

And that is discounting possible earlier deposits of Necronium-like material from the Kharidian-Zarosian Wars and Tumeken's nuking of the final battlefield. Granted, we don't know the exact nature of the war. It could have been a (possibly long) series of quick moving skirmishes instead of the grindfest that Bandos turned the God Wars into. Plus a key part of the proposed necronium lore is dependent on Third Age Armor and Magic. But the Kharidian-Zarosian Wars had Second Age Armor possibly blessed by Zaros or the Kharidian Pantheon, plus demonic and Zarosian/Mahjarrat magic with high doses of divine nuke radiation. So not exactly Necronium, probably a lot rarer, and with different properties but made by the same accidental artificial geological process.

But, that can be its own thing if Jagex wants to play with it.

Besides the slow-moving Kharidian Desert campaign, actual canon about the Third Age mentions the Hallowvale campaign was particularly slow and grindy as well. So, there is likely a big deposit of Necronium outside the walls of Meiyerditch and others scattered throughout Morytania. Besides those grindfests, there are the battles over Nex's prison, the battle of Annakarl, the battles of Uzer and Ullek, and the Sieges of Senntisten/Saranthium, and then the failed campaign to liberate Morytania.

If you include the Armies of Gielinor single player campaign you get a more detailed picture of the conquest of Hallowvale, the reconquest of Asgarnia and Misthalin, and the scourging of Forinthry. So I am guessing those were slow and grindy as well and thus good locations for Necronium deposits. Nothing about anything west of the White Wolf and Trollweiss mountains, though.
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19-Jul-2017 06:22:28

Penny Drakis

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Actually, I am ignorant of what happened in the west during the Third Age, besides the gnomes and dwarves going underground. The elves were doing things and the ogres where doing something else? I dunno.

What is the lore on what was going on in pre-(historic?)Kandarin, Feldip, Tirannwn, and the Fremmenik lands in the Third Age?
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19-Jul-2017 06:36:09

Penny Drakis

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Padomenes said:
But isn't it also likely that the Zarosians may have infact used Invictum armour for their melee troops?

Looking at the appearance of that, kind of bears a resemblance to a 'Mahjarrat-Roman' type of design:



OO! That should teach me to ignore the non-lore videos. Well, that is definitely special enough to create Second Age Necronite (which I suppose I should call Invictite). There should be deposits of that at the borders of the former Zarosian Empire rather than at Third Age sites. I can't imagine much of it being manufactured in the Third Age after the empire fell, although there might have been large caches of it found during the Third Age and used by besieged Zarosians or Zamorakian and Saradomist adventuring parties.
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Let there be light.
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19-Jul-2017 14:27:18

Penny Drakis

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Padomenes said:
Thanous is a pale, greenish-white, powdery rock formed primarily of bone which burns with a brilliant green flame and a sound of distant screaming. When necrolith is heated in the flame of thanous it does not melt or sag but rather stretches and rises as if straining for something. It forms itself into the plates and shapes of armour and weapons, though bizarre and misshapen. A skilled smith can guide and correct this process and create usable and extremely powerful equipment. The resulting necronium has a dark blue sheen and is still covered in the skulls and bones of the dead that grant it strength.

-Mod Jack


I wonder if this Thanous concept survived the review process. I think it is neat that Necrolith substitutes in Thaous into the ore + coal = metal formula . It be nice if Drakkurlith, Invictite(?), and Aetherite(?) had similar fuels to feed the furnace flames/alloy with the metals.

From the Wiki page on the mining and smithing rework it sounds like coal will be unnecessary for the higher tier metals except for making the smelting process faster. I still haven't watched the actual video. Too damn sleepy do it right now unfortunately. Don't want to risk falling asleep while listening to Mod Raven. :P
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And then there were none.

20-Jul-2017 01:58:13

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