No Fae-Forging gromril.
Fae-fyre can't melt it, and even if it could the Fae-Forging process is a lot more about purging weakness in metals and alloying on the strength of Fae-Materials by burning it in the concoction. As you might expect, the physical embodiment of Law would not react well to the sort of thing the Fay use in their incendiaries.
I thought it wasn't 'the stuff of law' unless properly forged? But whatev's, you're the boss. Though now I'm curious as to what the Dwarves
actually use to melt Gromril. Dragonfire is out, as they lost access to
that a long time ago, and I don't think a typical magma forge would be enough either. Tungsten, a completely mundane metal, can stand up to the heat of a basic magma forge. You'd either have to dig
deep, and I'm talking
miles deep, or heat up the forge to patently unsafe levels.
Name them. Now. Because I have never heard any bit of lore that stated that someone who was not a dwarf forged or even just reforged Gromil. It's literally the dwarf's own personal special metal, like Illithmar is for the Elves, and has been that way since it's very introduction.
Those materials? They weren't Gromil. They might have been equal or even better then Gromil, but they weren't Gromil and have absolutely no bearing on us being able to do in a few short years what the Gold Collage couldn't do in 200, what the entirety of mankind couldn't do since humans first learned that Gromil existed, which is to take raw Gromil from the ground and forge it into any form of processed gromil themselves rather then have to get it from the dwarfs. And frankly? It would be absolutely insulting to the setting in the most mary sue way possible if we did manage to do that.
Voikirium has already stated that the Fae don't know anything about Gromil, that they actually hate Gromil quite a bit because the dwarfs used it to kick their asses, and want nothing to do with Gromil. So no, Fae-forged any version of Gromil is not a possibility or within our grasp.
It's nothing I could look up online, and I can't just pull it out of my ass; I'd have to go through old source-books for that, books that I, for the most part, don't have anymore. That said, are you seriously saying that in the wide,
wide fucking world of Warhammer that it's
never happened, not
once? I
hate that kinda special snowflake
bullshit. The only reason Dwarves even know what the fuck to
do is because one of their ancestor gods fucking
told them! Okay, point I'm trying to make? You don't need height problems and a beard to forge Gromril, it just gives you a serious leg up on the competition because you actually know what the fuck you're doing. Also, last I checked, Illithmar didn't have any special-snowflake forging rules, it's just really light, really strong metal only found in the lands of Ulthuan, because it wasn't always metal. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
I don't know what's got you so riled up about this. Gromril is special,
so what, so are a million other things in the world of Warhammer. It doesn't get to be the
one thing with the indecipherable secrets. There are plenty of things that people thought 'impossible', that took far better people far longer to accomplish,
without magic, they still persevered, they still succeeded. Just because no one has done something before doesn't mean it can't be done, that's quitter talk and I refuse to accept it.
It's not the fucking Fae forging it, we would have been forging it, us, using Fae magic, with Fae techniques, or do you believe the magic is sentient enough to go 'ew, Gromril'?! That said, this is all rather moot as the GM has ruled that even in it's base form Gromril is law-aligned and thus incompatible with Fae magics. And that beyond that, Fae-fyre takes more after Greek fire than Wildfire, as it doesn't burn hot enough to actually melt the metal.
I figured it would work because A.) I thought Fae-fyre was a
lot hotter than it apparently is, as I figured 'take Greek fire, make it magical, and feed it steroids', it also reminded me of other fictional fires with special properties, and B.) because Gromril in it's base form takes enchantments just as well as any other metal. And I'm not just talking about Runes,
regular enchantments. I thought that it'd take to the Fae-stuff just fine.
As for
why I wanted to do it, because this always freakin' happens in quests, always. Someone finds a vein? Hand it over to the Dwarves. Someone loots some bars? Dwarves. Someone picks up some artifacts? Dwarves. It's always the fucking Dwarves. And at best, at fucking
best one or two people get some decent non-magical armor, at worst we just get a chunk of gold that's gone again in two or three turns. I wanted to do something
special, I wanted to do something
awesome, but most of all, I wanted to do something
fun with this. Only to find that, yet again, all we can really do is pawn it off on the fucking Dawi, hurray.
