| tkdguy | 01 Sep 2015 11:25 p.m. PST |
Nothing earth-shattering, but it looks cool: link I remember reading a couple of novels where swords were made from meteoric iron. One was the Silmarillion, where the dark elf Eol made two such swords. Another was an Arthurian novel (I forget the title); Excalibur was one such sword. |
| cloudcaptain | 01 Sep 2015 11:38 p.m. PST |
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| Martin From Canada | 02 Sep 2015 4:43 a.m. PST |
Jack Whyte's Arthurian Cycle? Skystone, Singing Sword, Eagle's Brood, Saxon Shore, the Merlin duology and the Lanceot duology? |
| zippyfusenet | 02 Sep 2015 5:42 a.m. PST |
As I understand it, before people had the technology to smelt iron ore, weapons were sometimes made from found iron meteorites. One pharoah had such a sword, it's in a museum. |
Patrick Sexton  | 02 Sep 2015 6:04 a.m. PST |
Quite a few Malay kris (a wavy bladed sword or knife) were made out of meteoric iron. |
| Winston Smith | 02 Sep 2015 6:06 a.m. PST |
Ser Arthur Dayne's sword Dawn in Game of Thrones is not Vslyrian steel but probably meteoric iron.
Hope to see him in flashbacks in Season 6 and Book 6. |
| boy wundyr x | 02 Sep 2015 6:59 a.m. PST |
Gotrek the Slayer has an axe made of meteoric iron, IIRC. |
| Graycat | 02 Sep 2015 7:43 a.m. PST |
The primary Bear character from Golden Compass Iorek Byrnison had armor made from Star Metal. More recent read, James Rollins "Eye of God", the Cross of St. Thomas was made from 'a fallen Star'. |
 Saber6  | 02 Sep 2015 8:50 a.m. PST |
the sword Terry Pratchett was knighted with was forged from meteoric metal |
| Eclectic Wave | 02 Sep 2015 1:42 p.m. PST |
Sir Terry Pratchett had a sword made that was forged from Iron off his own land and from meteoric metal, because he felt that since he was a knight he needed a sword. He was not knighted with a meteoric metal sword. |
| Shagnasty | 02 Sep 2015 8:07 p.m. PST |
In a movie James Bowie's knife was forged from "star stone." |
| tkdguy | 02 Sep 2015 8:54 p.m. PST |
I can't recall the name of the book or the author. I remember borrowing it from my dad in the 1980s. Bedivere was the narrator, and he was Arthur's foster brother in this version. Also, Merlin was a title here; Celidon was the man's actual name. |
| ghostdog | 03 Sep 2015 5:04 a.m. PST |
So… if some mythical creature says that "any weapon from this earth can hurt me"… these weapons are the way to get around such claim? |
| tkdguy | 03 Sep 2015 11:11 p.m. PST |
That's one way to interpret it. |
| Great War Ace | 06 Sep 2015 6:48 a.m. PST |
Cool! I always was fascinated by "star stone" made into weapons. I'm going to introduce one into my resumed fantasy gaming. I'll give it some thought…. |
