> > > >Storm is either bronze, silver or iron.
> > > >
> > > > --Peter Metcalfe
> > >
> > > These days, but I'm reasonably sure that at the time Tin was the
> > > Air metal.
> >
> > Yey! =D
> >
> > (Back to the GD)
>
> Back from the GD ... ;-)
>
> I'm personally very sympathetic to Peter's GD
> suggestion that tin is the metal of the High
> Sky, Lightning, and (I'd personally add) Star
> Powers.
>
> Looking at the cover of ST, one can't fail
> to notice that the Vingan bears a coronet of
> *blue* metal, and has a spear blazing with *blue*
> fire.
>
> I believe that these two magic items are made
> of Zinc,
*whoops* "tin" : brain-fart ... :-(
> and that this metal has the power to
> channel High Fire/Lightning energies.
>
> I think that Lightning Javelins must have
> zinc
*whoops* "tin" : brain-fart ... :-(
> spear heads, for instance, and that zinc,
*whoops* "tin" : brain-fart ... :-(
> unlike other metals, hardens instead of softening
> when subjected to heat, so that HQ characters
> can Augment the weapons bonuses of zinc
*whoops* "tin" : brain-fart ... :-(
> weapons by filling them with High Fire or
> Lightning magics.
>
> Zinc,
*whoops* "tin" : brain-fart ... :-(
> with its natural powers
> is of course the metal of choice for
> making roofs pleasurable to heat-loving
> Yinkini layabouts ... ;-)
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