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Padomenes

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Penny Drakis said:
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.
We might have to firstly discover where the Zarosians mined the ore for it and how they smelted/forged them in that case? Perhaps its also what the Torva armour was forged from and the ones being worn by the 'ancient warriors', unless Invictum was only for the higher ranking people like the officers+. The ore name is also Latin and seems to translate to mean 'invincible': https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/translate/latin-english/invictum

This part to be discussed separately: (Although I'm personally going for Aetherium, to add I feel that next tier of ore might have either Armadylean or Saradominist origins however. It feels like the same metal used to forge the godsword blades before enchantment by their appearance/strength.";)

19-Jul-2017 17:15:17 - Last edited on 19-Jul-2017 17:22:23 by Padomenes

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19-Jul-2017 17:54:28

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I always figured that, since they're obviously magical metals, it was probably something along the lines of:
Necronium - absorbed death, blood, and necromantic energies. Barrows metal is like an "artificial" form of this metal instead of naturally formed, cuzza Sliske and all.
Invictum - absorbed shadow and general dark energy. Same base/origin metal as Torva, probably "blessed" (or cursed?) with the ancient curses.
Aethyrium - absorbed spirit and general light energy. Probably what the Aviansie used to forge the godsword. Zilyana's sword is made of steel according to the most recent lore corner, so it's proobaably not a Saradominist metal?
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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:




Well, we know from Roots in the Community that standard soldiers used enchanted bronze and iron:

He'd spent a good while puzzling over the reasons for making an agricultural tool with such esoteric methods, when even the Imperial Army were equipped with bronze and iron
(...)
He'd designed it for battle-axe blades and the two-handed iron swords used by the empire's myrmidons, but the Imperial Army's widespread use of weapon enchantments meant that even the lowliest bronze short sword retained its point and its edge nigh indefinitely, and there'd been no call for such a solution.

However, the army's elite had some interesting design choices:

They were light horse - equipped to serve as skirmishers or outriders - each rider clad in a light cuirass, deep-purple tunic and the customary closed-face helm of the Imperial Army's elite. They were each armed with a short spear, a light bow and a curved, bronze dagger.

A closed-face helm was apparently customary of the Army's elite you say? *Looks back at Invictum's concept art* huh... Seems like this metal was reserved for their elite, or maybe even the elite's elite.
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19-Jul-2017 19:19:50 - Last edited on 19-Jul-2017 19:23:32 by AesirWarrior

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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.

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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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20-Jul-2017 01:58:13

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Penny Drakis said:

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


They are killing coal with fire, and I was super upset about it, but it needs to be done bc, they argued, that it was a low level resource, and shouldn't be used in high level Smithing, so they were looking to replace it.

20-Jul-2017 05:44:04

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A Mighty said:
Am I the only one who sees the Mask of Sliske in the Invictum helm??
No, I see it too but I identify it as more of a mahjarrat shaped face piece, due to the contribution that Sliske and many Mahjarrats had in the empire. Of course they would have designed an armour that was dedicated to that?

20-Jul-2017 07:16:58

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Aetherium is definitely more Armadylian than Saradominist.



Armadyl's symbol is on the gauntlets (especially evident on the masterwork).

The Helmet evokes the shape of an aviansie's head (the curved point at the front resembles a beak, while the flourishes at the back resemble a feathered crest (see Taw'Paak and Armadyl)).

The boots on the masterwork possess a talon-like extension the regular variant does not.

As such, I'd expect deposits of the ore to be found particularly in locations that were under Armadylian control during the time of the God Wars (ex: the Empyrean Citadel and Abbinah).

20-Jul-2017 16:37:12 - Last edited on 20-Jul-2017 16:43:02 by Hguoh

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