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Darth_Olsinus 07-30-04, 05:40 PM	Many years ago... There was a two part article concerning the nine planes of Hell run in dragon magazine. In that article there were descriptions of two metals unique to the hells that could be alloyed with metals such as admanitium...etc. I believe the article was somewhere in the 70ish numbered issues. What I need help with. If anyone has access to old dragon magazines or the cd compliation of said magazine, could they please post the description and properties of those metals for me. Thanks.
Kuje31 07-30-04, 06:08 PM	Originally posted by Darth_Olsinus Many years ago... There was a two part article concerning the nine planes of Hell run in dragon magazine. In that article there were descriptions of two metals unique to the hells that could be alloyed with metals such as admanitium...etc. I believe the article was somewhere in the 70ish numbered issues. What I need help with. If anyone has access to old dragon magazines or the cd compliation of said magazine, could they please post the description and properties of those metals for me. Thanks. You sure they are in those articles? Looking through them both, I don't see any such text..... I'm not saying its not there, I'm just not seeing it.
Krash 07-30-04, 10:28 PM	You are after Dragon#91, "The Nine Hells Revisited". The metals were (off the top of my head) tantulhor and arjale. -- George Krashos
Kuje31 07-30-04, 10:43 PM	Originally posted by Krash You are after Dragon#91, "The Nine Hells Revisited". The metals were (off the top of my head) tantulhor and arjale. -- George Krashos Thanks to George here they are. Unique metals and talismans The two metals unique to the hells are found in Phlegethos, Malbolge, Maladomini, and Nessus. One of them is arjale. It is black in color, light in weight, easily worked to a smooth surface, and can be brought to razor sharpness. If alloyed with iron, it becomes a light green-grey in color, and quite pliable (a metal sometimes called "dajavva"). The other is tantulhor (no relation to what we know as "tantalum"). It is about the weight of iron, can be worked into a smooth finish, and is apparently unbreakable - weapon blades fashioned of it will cut anything they touch, except stone. Methods of forging and working these metals are unknown outside the hells - as, by and large, are the metals themselves. Due to their rarity and properties, such metals will bring very high prices if shrewdly sold on the Prime Material Plane. The rod of Dispater is known to be made of tantulhor, and Moloch's whip is of dajavva. The talismans of many devils - Agares, Asmodeus, Barbatos, and Buer, for certain - are known to be fashioned of arjale, and most others are suspected to be of tantulhor (so far, Zagan's talisman and the talisman for all barbed devils have been specifically identified as of tantulhor; note that both of these talismans have a number of barbs that will cut anything but stone). The compositions of a few other talismans are known: the talisman for all bone devils is a hook of bone (origin unknown); the talisman for all malebranche is of obsidian; and the talismans of Belial, Morax, and Zepar are of polished brass.
Darth_Olsinus 07-31-04, 03:38 AM	thanks guys, i appreciate it