Mithril

"It is always possible the records are incomplete."

- Proverb of the Azurejays, Scholar-Knights of San Sylvester

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Mithril, known also as "True-Silver", is a rare metallic element with desirable physical and magical properties that can be found throughout the Deeps, often co-mingled with the metals copper, silver, and lead in ores such as Galena, and so can be found across the surface of Ahren as well. While most early smiths considered mithril an unworkable form of dross, the dwarves of the Clans of Magnus eventually learned to separate mithril from dross and alloy it with silver to create the metal of the same name. Originally, this was a purely dwarven endeavour. In the Age of Elven Springtime, on or around the 50th year of that age, the Elves somehow acquired the lore for themselves.

By the contemporary era the secret of working mithril is relatively well known, making it the most common of all of the "magical" metals, by comparison to substances like Darkcoal, Carcolie Skyiron, Adamantium, and Himmelmetall.