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This is fantasy crap not real magick

Missing Stormbringer in this list

4:54 the historical significance of lead is often overlooked. It doesn’t have a particular “age” but developed along side copper but before bronze.

Those stripped from the Grace of Gold shall all meet death at the embrace of Messmer's flame.

I am also really please on the inclusion of lightsabers here. If you accept the underlying truth, Star Wars is Fantasy in Space, and Jedi are Space Wizards. The kyber crystals are what make an otherwise technological weapon magical. The story behind Ahsoka Tano's sabers gives an interesting concept of redemption that is a huge part of Star Wars. To start with, you have to understand Bled Kybers. Kyber Crystals are naturally aligned with the Light Side, because the Light Side is the Balanced side of the Force. A Darksider pours anger, pain and hatred into a kyber, which causes the semi-sentient stone to "break" and "bleed" and turn red, because negative emotions are how the Darkside is accessed and thus how the Force is misused. So how is Ahhsoka's blades so important? After Order 66, she abandoned her original sabers and went into hiding. An Inquisitor (an Imperial Jedi hunter) came across her and they fought, and Ahsoka won. She took the kybers from his saber (the spinny double-bladed sabers of Inquisitors) and meditated with them and gave them positive and peaceful emotions until the pain and hate in them was washed away, and they turned white. Now as I type this, I feel like this is another allusion to the core theme of redemption in SW, of which Darth Vader is the central figure of. Ahsoka was able to do a miniature with some kybers.

Anduril - The thing about Aragorn's story is he was not reluctant in the book, that was a characterisation in the movies. I do however feel like the books use it as a sign that Aragorn is stepping onto the final stretch of his path to kinghood - remembering that unlike the movies, it was reforged when the Fellowship were in Rivendell, when the Council of Elrond happened. On top of that Aragorn's backstory involves years of travel, including periods of time he spent in Rohan and Gondor. Aragorn left Rivendell with the Fellowship knowing he was likely going to have to call on his claim to kingship before the quest was done. He sought after a very symbolic brooch from Galadriel knowing what his path was taking him towards (he was also tasked with certain achievements to have Galadriel's approval to wed her granddaughter). So one can look at Aragorn's book course as not reluctance, but stoic knowledge of where he is heading, and Anduril is a symbol of that.

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Believe it or not but you just solved my biggest writer's block in my head! I have all these great ideas but I am stuck at my writing style (English isn't my first language, but it's the language I want to write in because I like certain terms, verbs and phrases more) and even though people say they like my writing a lot, I somehow didn't and a lot was because I was telling to much for my taste. (It was different for every one of my readers and they did like it, but I didn't and it got so bad I got a writer's block). Now, you saved me soo much! I never knew how to really establish "show, don't tell" properly in writing but THIS!!! this is an amazing video!! You got one more sub here <3

Dwarves are stubborn, robust, resilient, greedy, short fused, hairy, honor driven, love ancestry, fearless, grudge holders. They're more than blacksmiths and kings.

Native copper is green due to the oxidation i it goes thru from being exposed to the elements

Gotta call you on a certain point...Metals are not necessarily formed inside the earth unless it's through nuclide decay (Uranium eventually decomposes to Lead), they existed long before our earth was formed. Metals generally originate inside the heart of a star, which I personally think is way cooler.

I'm 16 and I recently finished my first novel. I can confirm that consistency is key. I told myself that I would write 1000 words every day until the book was finished, and that I could write in advance, but not put it off till later. Two and a half months later, my friend's eyes bulge when I tell them about the 266 page manuscript I wrote while they were struggling to write a five page essay. That alone is very reassuring. One part I think that helped with the self-doubt part is all of the research I did before even starting my novel. I even did research while writing it, though most of it was inadvertent because of a youtube thumbnail that caught my eye. That alone significantly boosted my self-confidence. While I can recognize the many flaws in my first draft, I can point out at least one or two things I'm pretty sure I nailed. I'm now working on the outline for my second and doing more "research" to get ideas. My first novel I didn't outline, and, while I had some incredible moments of inspiration, I can tell the final product wasn't great, so I'm trying the other end of the spectrum to see how it goes. Great vid, though I'll admit I knew most of the content due to my previous research; after a while, it all sort of sounds the same, and there's only so much advice you can get from experts before you just have to get writing.

I think a brilliant example of a novel that raises a giant middle finger to the hollywood spectacle has to be The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Rothfuss manages to make a musical performance more exciting and with more tension than a dragon fight. My only complaint about the series is that it's probably never going to be finished. If you haven't read it yet, what are you doing? Probably my favorite book, and I believe the closest thing to an "action" scene in the books is when the main character, Kvothe, sort of fights, mostly just outsmarts, a pseudo-dragon that can't fly. Seriously, when I remember Kvothe's economic struggles in the first book I get tense. The book manages to have so much tension despite having next to no action. Great book all around, there isn't enough praise in the world to be sung (hah [main character's a bard of sorts]) for this series. Great vid btw.

Man I love writing stories. My favorites stories to write are either extremely realistic or a mix of sci-fi with fantasy. Shame I just don't know how to share them so mostly I keep them to myself. I really would like to be a writer for Video Games, as I try to make my stories kinda "game-y" with Gameplay Details and other stuff like that. The Legendary Weapon idea could be interesting. I might just write one...

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Focusing on lore instead of worldbuilding is the most powerful way to get inspiration for the ACTUAL story, without feeling stuck (this happens sometimes with worldbuilding, at least to me)

Psychological injury - sounds like a deeper misbelief?

My favourite Fantasy Metal has to be Ebony from The Elder Scrolls, it's literally the solidified form of a Dead God's Blood, which rained across Tamriel when Akatosh killed Lorkhan and threw his still beating Heart from the Adamantine Tower, the Heart landed in Morrowind's Inner Sea and formed the Volcanic Island of Vvardenfell, where The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind takes place, because of this Vvardenfell has the richest Ebony Mines in Tamriel, along with rich Glass Mines (The Glass Weapons and Armour in TES is literally made from Volcanic Glass, called Malachite in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim)

I had a special material that doesn't exactly fit as a metal itself, but is no less valuable. And with the right tools, training, and time, it could be mixed with other metals to create a special and rare alloy. The material in question are Arcane Crystals that grow in locations where magical energy in the world pools up. These can be deep caves, deserts, or any location where life naturally has a hard time thriving. As life feeds itself on magic like it would water or any other nutrients. Natural Crystals come in two varieties. The common variety is simply known as Energy Crystals. They can be used in lieu of a caster using harnessing their own sources of magic for spells. Of which both wizards and dwarven kind have found the right combination of runes can allow them to create powerful magics with the crystals powering them. Though of course the greater the spell, the greater the crystal must be along with the runework in question. Of course, rune magic can be powered by the caster themselves, but not without great strain. Making these crystals sought after for making both making day to day spells and larger scale ritualistic spells. These crystals can also be grown by magic users, though to create a crystal of any significant size could take years if not a lifetime. The second crystal type, much rarer and impossible to grow artificially, are elemental crystals. These crystals are keyed in to a specific elements which affect their color and properties. Wizards often use these rarer crystals in both their creations and their traps. Like using fire crystals to create deadly fire traps that are next to impossible to block magically. Or using ice crystals to create powerful ice golems. And so on. The dwarves have found that with simple runework, they can use these two specific elements to heat and cool things. Such as creating hot water for possibly a bath, or cooling things for long periods of time for storage. Though such use is rarely seen outside dwarven holds. Only found with those in good standing with the dwarven people and with large amounts of wealth. Lastly, the alloy. Due to the rarity and volatility of the crystals, creating a stable alloy from them is difficult, but creates a powerful Arcane Steel that is both highly durable and easy to enchant. Additionally, magic casters have an easier time channeling their magic through this metal. Allowing them to cast strong spells with a weapon made from this material as a medium. There is little demand for the metal to be used for anything but weapons. But the alloy can be used in other areas of use and can substitute other metals. Such as in cooking utensils, armor, nails, wood axes, and so on. Such material can only be worked on though with great experience in metal working with great arcane knowledge. Additionally, it is known for Magic Universities to draw upon the excess magics of their sorcerer students and professors to grow crystals. Creating a small, yet steady source of crystals that helps find the school.

I always liked L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s usage of iron and copper in the Recluce series, where order and chaos magic are the primary systems used, and indeed, permeate every facet of life and nature. Those who can manipulate order fields and use it to strengthen the natural order bonds in things are known as order-mages, and many are members of the Order of Engineers in the city of Nylan, where they use their skills as smiths to forge what is known as 'black iron', stronger than steel and less resource intensive to make, so long as you have order mages who can imbue it with order, strengthening the crystalline bonds within the metal to extreme levels. Regular iron already causes those who handle chaos power injury, and is somewhat effective at stopping their firebolts, but BLACK iron weapons will kill a chaos wizard outright (and in fiery explosions as shown when the order-smith Justen forges black iron arrowheads for the defense of Sarronnyn against the encroaching forces of Fairhaven), and black iron shielding, while heavy, will protect against even the strongest of chaos-bolts (and is typically used on their steam-powered attack vessels, The Mighty Ten). Chaos-wizards are able to draw upon the energy all around them, the inherent chaotic power within all things, some even able to focus the light of the sun or the heat deep beneath the earth into raw chaos power. Since they cannot handle order without great pain (or death in the case of great order), iron is right out, so what metal do they use? Copper/bronze mostly, however in ancient times during the reign of the great White Empire of Cyador, their chaos-wizards were able to work with special coppersmiths called cupritors to create a magical metal alloy called Cupridium; stronger and lighter than even iron, but vulnerable to shattering when confronting great order sources such as black iron. During the Empire's time no one existed that could forge black iron, and so their use of cupridium was unchallenged until the Angels fell several hundred years later, and the order-forged blades of the legendary smith Nylan (crafted from plasteel lander struts as that's all they had) smashed through the cupridium weapons and armor of the Cyadorans with ease. The way he casually introduces these newly created metals from existing ones USING the magic system in his setting is flawless, it just flows neatly into the narrative and makes everything even more interesting.

In my story, there are some extremely strong metals, as well as other exotic matters. 2 of them are the classic Adamantite, and my own Andromitium. Each have their own upside and downside, but both are extremely rare. Adamantite, also known as the 'heart of the mountain', is quite a bit stronger than the other, but is also extremely hard to process due its hardness as well as heat and magic resistance. Its processing techniques are passed down among some of the dwarves colony, but even then, some of the technology to actually process them has been lost since no one has even seen an adamantite for centuries. Andromitium are rarely found in 'pieces of fallen sky'. They are significantly easier to process than adamantite, although its still very complex for a medieval fantasy world, since it needs a strong electromagnetic current to be processed. There are ton others, such as the white steel, black steel, etc., radiant steel which can only be made by the faeries, Nihilium which is less of a metal and more of a highly unstable radioactive matter. And so on, and so forth...

This is a tip for novel writing: I’d like to mention that there is such a thing as worldbuilders’ disease. The best way to avoid it is to focus on just one or two major aspects of your world. An example of this is in brandon sanderson’s the stormlight archive, where he took the weather aspect and made that one bit shape everything else, giving the world a sense of depth it likely wouldn’t have had if he tried to focus on everything at once. TLDR: you don’t need to include everything.

My favourite fictional metal, from a conceptual standpoint, is Hadium, from Destiny. The fundamental property of Hadium is that it improves with use and age. When something made of Hadium is first crafted, it is nearly useless. But the more you persist in using it, the more faith and time and effort you put into using it, the more it will be able to serve it's intended purpose. A Hadium blade will start off blunt, no matter how skilled a craftsman you are, but the more you cut with the blade, the sharper it will become. If you make Hadium armour, it will start off soft, but as it takes blows, will get tougher and harder. If you make a Hadium filament lightbulb, it glow brighter and brighter the longer it is allowed to shine. The other cool aspect is that Hadium chemically acts like Calcium, a metal that most people never even think about. But Calcium, particularly in the form of Calcium Carbonate, is the metal of that gives life shape. Calcium makes shells and bones and teeth. But Calcium Carbonate is also what fossilises life. Hadium is much that same when it comes to society that use it. Hadium can be used to make almost anything if you're creative enough, but why would you make anything new when everything old has already had so much time to hone itself? Now apply that reasoning to people who have Hadium in their body. Their bones will get harder, their muscles will get stronger, their senses will get sharper as they age, but they will still age. And why would anyone ever take a chance on someone younger? And as a result, the people in power will continue to get older and more powerful and unwilling to change anything. The contradiction between how creative the uses of Hadium can be, but how much it's use invites stagnation and power-hoarding, that is fascinating to me.

If you want a different take, go lookup metals in Glorantha.

Adamatium is not a metal, well at least not in the Movie, its an alloy.

Im a huge Lit-RPG fan, and one of my favorite moments in the He Who Fights With Monsters is when they are going through a "Sun Gold" facility, and how the regular gold is just a trash part of what is useful in Pallimustus. Jason takes a bunch and says "on my world, trash gold, is just gold"

Sounds good in theory, but soon Amazon will be flooded with self-published AI novels that are fairly well written but perhaps lacking emotional depth or having strong narrative consistency. The self-published novel is a legitmate path to traditional publishing because it is currently hard to get an agent to read an unpublished author, let alone a publisher. For mid-tier authors it actually can make more financial sense to self-publish. A determined and well organised "AI author" - who uses AI for 90+% of the work - can complete 10 novels in the same time as one who doesn't. There is a legitimate risk that AI novels will completely kill off new novelists, leaving only the 'secret gate' - knowing someone in publishing who will get your manuscript in front of the right person.

Really solid advice. Using the "TBD" tag is a good tip.

In my tales, mixing magical human "parts" with building materials of any kind (cloth, metals, stone, etc) can transfer their magic, which is unique to each individual, to the material. For example, in my tales there is a person who can raise her own temperature up to the point she catch fire, being also fire proof. To not get naked every time she uses her power she has a set of clothes that was made by immersion dyeing it in her blood, making the cloth fireproof. Her sword was also quenched in her blood so it didn't melt when she wield it. Those items are called Relics, and are one of the reason magical people live far from "normal" society since they often get hunted to be transformed into literal weapons. (also because they are often dangerous to have around for how easily some can level a city by accident :3) But this process is hard, take a lot of trial and error, is looked as "inhumane" by some people, and is very expensive to do. Anyway, the reason I said all that is because I always had the idea of making a fantasy metal by being a metal vein under a graveyard (or something similar) that absorbed naturally some kind of magical property from human remains buried close to it. Could never make it work tho, the uniqueness of each individual made it quite hard to justify the metal being found on multiple places.