[Guide] Metals and Minerals

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Seeing as the original post hasn’t been updated since 2020, I thought I would take it on myself to find all the lore I could for the DF metals. I didn’t do the Slands ones because I don’t want to, and I think the world will be a better place for it.

Serevite

Serevite is the most common ore found across the Dragon Isles. Though it is often found in mountainous regions, it is also revealed around flowing bodies of water.

https://gyazo.com/d4cffd6935c4be354e22e06a9e6560cf

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Serevite_Harpoon_Head
The Iskaara Tuskarr use Serevite for the heads of their harpoons, presumably for its commonness.

Draconium

Draconium Deposits are a rare find upon the Dragon Isles, but they are more often spotted in rugged or hard to reach locations.

https://gyazo.com/8820227abea61cb4d72fc8e7c1f9f464

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Draconium_Net_Weights
The Iskaara Tuskarr use Draconium as weights for their fishing nets. Seems a strange choice, considering its apparent rarity - it could be assumed that Draconium is dense to make it make sense, but I haven’t found any actual confirmation of this.

“Crystalized Draconium, formed under great pressure.”

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Crystalized_Draconium
Draconium crystallises under “great pressure.”

Khaz’gorite

The days of Khaz’gorite emerging on the surface of the Dragon Isles have long since passed. Miners seeking this rare ore can only depend on trace amounts being uncovered when mining other metals.

https://gyazo.com/7c429bc2b2ae262a317fc14d5316860b
Seems Khaz’gorite used to appear on the surface, but this is no longer the case, and it can now only be found in very small amounts.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything for the alloys. We truly are in the best lore era.

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Beyond what they’re made of there’s not much too say, one thing of note is that all of the alloys use the following ingredients:

  • 1 or 2 different types of awakened essences
  • Draconium ore
  • Khaz’gorite ore
  • Primal Flux

So no Serevite is ever used in the making of these alloys, why? Who knows.

My best guess would be the metallurgy skill tree for 40/40 Draconium which implies a link between the rousing/awakened essences and draconium itself because it allows you to sometimes find rousing essences in exclusively draconium ore nodes, so you need the draconium specifically to even work the elemental essences into the alloy

Still nothing concrete though, going with this means going with the actual recipe’s and profession talent tree text which is argueably just a game mechanic thing. For all we know Blizzard thought alloys would be too easy to farm if you took out either draconium or khaz’gorite and replaced it with Serevite.

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Great guide!
Maybe someone here knows the answer to something ive been wondering constantly;

The stone weapons we get in dragonflight’s emerald dream, what would those be made of? I refuse to believe its ordinary flint or obsidian or chert.

Though i guess if there is no answer, Special Fantasy Chert From The Emerald Dream ™ would be the best option.

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I think they’re quiete literally… Stone?

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In the Emerald Dream, some ore deposits have the “living” modifier. When you start mining them, they spawn an elemental that you can mine for more ore that starts running away from you. It’s quite comical.

But based off of that, it seems that the stone of the Emerald Dream is inherently magical and infused with life magic. So I imagine that these weapons are made out of some sort of “living stone” and could potentially be alive, in the same sense as elementals are.

The precise sort of stone is up to you. But sure, living chert, why not?

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Stone isn’t very specific though. And most stones dont really sharpen particularly well. But Shogganosh’ explanation of living chert makes as much sense as any i suppose. Made sturdier through magical properties.

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That was what I assumed! Because well… the Emerald Dream is a blueprint of Azeroth without (im)mortal interference like the Burning Legion, etc!

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After a long wait, I added Serevite and Draconium to the original post, along with a bit of lore about the origins of Elementium detailed in the War of the Scaleborn novel. Elementium was discovered first by the Black Dragonflight, and they invented a “new form” of it that’s lightweight and unbreakable. They also invented a metal called Blacksteel, but there is no lore about it whatsoever besides one single mention of the Black Dragons having invented it.

The reason for the long wait is that ultimately there just isn’t lore on the properties of the Dragonflight or TWW metals. We know that they exist, but as detailed in the guide, we’re only listing minerals with actual lore and sources behind them to back up any descriptions of their traits or their uses. When the only lore is the fact that it exists, it makes for a poor entry to the guide.

Even so, I’ve added them due to popular demand, scarce though it is. Thank you to Degrak for doing the legwork of trying to find what little there is.

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TWW metals are mostly complicated steel alloys. Bismuth as one of the components shows it properly: it’s not something unimaginable, but it’s sturdy, creatable without magic means and fit for the needs of a Titanforged race without abundance of proper Titanic materials or the ability to make more easily.

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I think its also that they moved metallurgy away from alchemy in general, there’s no bars you make with it anymore last I checked

Some things I try to solve with reasonable headcannon cause I like my profession RP and usually try to work with new expansion metals as soon as possible IC. The only real thing the lore gives away is that ironclaw is more wanted by lets say smiths and aqirite is more wanted by say engineers but both professions still make use of the other ore type to a lesser degree.

for an example of things I just assume with headcannon is the type of stuff that really doesn’t hit or change anything, EX: it’s the earthens (khaz algar) flux which is the only flux which when applied to bismuth during purification allows it to solidify in a smooth shape rather then resolidifying in an unusable bismuth pattern. Try any other flux and your alloy will end up as an art project.

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Since BfA we suffer a terrible lack of lore regarding the new materials. This is a sad fact, and unfortunately, it can’t be completely compensated by logic alone. For one, judging by the name, aqirite sounds like another Black Empire material, extremely usable in Shadow or Void crafts but with normal hazards regarding working with it (similar to saronite, perhaps?)

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Does that mean its safe to assume in regards to metals and minerals with real life counterparts, we can just assume they work about the same?

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I don’t see why not. If it’s not stated otherwise, it’s only right to try and have things work as they are supposed to.