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Originally Posted by Kromm
Ah, "cold" is good! Is the iron itself cold? Was it worked cold? Who knows! That's the kind of fun with adjectives that fantasy settings need.
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Another option - the iron was tested by running it through a magic flame. Iron that remains cold to the touch is separated out and sold at a premium, due to its magic resistance. Or maybe merchants do something similar to prove it's immune to magic, much as they once set alcohol (or an alcohol-gunpowder mix) on fire for proof tests. Charlatans will, of course, figure out all manner of ways to cheat the system.
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Originally Posted by SolemnGolem
Hence: yes on the iron star product = meteoric iron. No on the "can I use a magical gate to bring it out" question. Guess we'll need a psi gate instead...
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Using psionics to reach into such a dying universe strikes me as monumentally bad idea, as it seems ready-made as an origin for Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. Of course, for a GM, that may well make it
perfect. Kromm noted you should be able to
carry meteoric iron through a gate (it's just encumbrance), so provided you can figure out a way to survive a brief jaunt into the star, you can simply carry the stuff through. Or have some sort of purpose-made servant do it for you (in which case it only needs to survive long enough to bring the stuff through).