I'm making a game and I want to invlude legendary metals. I already know one, Orihalcum, but I need more. Aren't there legendary metals in books and games and stuff?
2007-06-28 06:20:33 · 7 answers · asked by shadow_assassin000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Ha. I had to put some effort into finding this. But here it is...
X, the metal which made space flight possible in The Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith.
Resistium, (the "hydrogen" of the 'ultra-elements' which had a nucleus of negatrons and had orbital protons) was first featured in The Incredible Planet by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Durium, an alloy made from resistium and other ultra-elements from The Infinite Atom by John W. Campbell, Jr. (and was also used by E.E. "Doc" Smith in later works).
Radium X, the extra-terrestrial element which Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) made a death beam device in the film The Invisible Ray.
In Marooned by John W. Campbell, Jr., the Jovian exploration ship Mercury was constructed from Parium and Synthium, elements which had great tensile strength.
Byzanium, a fictional fissile element from Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler.
Unobtanium, the material from which the ship Virgil was constructed in the film The Core. the word unobtanium is also colloquially used by engineers to describe non-existent materials with desirable mechanical properties ("That shaft would have to be made of unobtanium in order to carry such a high load").
In the Marvel Comics universe, Wolverine's claws and metal skeleton are made of the super alloy adamantium.
Neutronium (incredibly dense, degenerate ionised matter) is featured in many works of science fiction.
Bendezium of the Metroid Prime series can only be destroyed by the Power bomb weapon.
Mithril is a super metal from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. It is precious and silvery, stronger than steel but much lighter in weight. It first appears in The Hobbit, where it is also called "silver-steel". Its properties were developed in The Lord of the Rings.
Durasteel is a brown super alloy of exceptional strength in the Star Wars universe.
In Star Trek, spacecraft hulls are made from the super metal alloys Duranium and Tritanium.
in StarCraft, Neosteel is a super strong metal used to construct Terran Battlecruisers, proccessed from mineral crystals.
In Warhammer 40,000, the Necrons utilize a material called Necrodermis (which translates into "Corpse Skin"), a metal that heals itself, for everything, including their own bodies.
The Yautja (the alien hunter race from the Predator films) use a super-light metal that can be forged to a monomolecular edge.
Chogokin Z (also known as Super-Alloy Z) is the metal utilized to construct the eponymous Super Robot of the anime series Mazinger Z, created with the newly-discovered element Japanium. Other variants include Chogokin New-Z, used to construct Great Mazinger, and Chogokin New-Zα, which was the basis material for Mazinkaiser. Series (and robot) sequel Grendizer also features an unrelated but still highly similar metal called Space Alloy Gren.
2007-06-28 06:32:39 · answer #1 · answered by pm 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did a cursory search of the web, since my only suggestion would have been the metal used for Wolverine's claws.
Joseph Moulton Jaquinta Grant lists the following on his page called "Fantasy Metalurgy": Mithril, Adamantine,Tinium, Laen, Aurum, Quaborum, Metallica
Wikipedia has a list of Fictional elements...:
Acoustium, Amazonium, Chelonium, Elerium, etc.
Random metals:
Durabyllium (from "Transformers"), ubium ("Nexus Ops"), tabbium ("green chemistry"), cavorite ("First Men in the Moon"), Rearden metal ("invented" by Hank Rearden)
You can also use real metals that aren't commonplace, such as the following names found on the Jean Auel Discussion page:
haimatits, pyrolusite, ocher
2007-06-28 06:56:41 · answer #2 · answered by chuckna21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steel, in high carbon, low carbon, high-strength-low-alloy, and stainless is definitely the most legendary of all metals. Aluminum in all of its different alloys is another legendary metal. So is copper. Copper kills any bacteria that touches it, if that isn't legendary I don't know what is. Steel and aluminum are extremely versatile and useful.
2007-06-28 07:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by Cody C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean noble metals/Elements ?
2007-06-29 17:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by roger m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only one I can think of is Mithril
2007-06-28 06:27:50 · answer #5 · answered by dragondog1976 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iron and steel are two of the most legendary metals ever know to man-kind.................................................................
2007-06-28 14:15:09 · answer #6 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mithril and adamantium....
Or maybe invent your own.....
2007-06-28 06:30:10 · answer #7 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋