11-25-2021, 03:40 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
What does orichalcum look like? As in color? If I walk around with an orichalcum breastplate on, will everyone recognize it?
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11-25-2021, 03:48 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: East of the moon, west of the stars, close to buses and shopping
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Re: Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
Somewhere in the gold-copper-bronze space.
"Orichalcum" comes from a Greek term meaning "mountain copper." The Romans mistranslated it as "gold copper," and by the late Republic, Roman writers were saying it was a copper alloy resembling gold, which suggests more of brass than a tin bronze kind of look. Anyway, yeah, I'd rule that it's got a distinctive appearance, or at least an appearance which makes people think that you've either got orichalcum or you're trying to look like you've got orichalcum.
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11-26-2021, 09:33 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
Go fancy with the description of it!
"It has the hue of a sunset over a lake. Not the gaudy luster of gold, nor the loud sheen of brass, nor the rosy blush of copper, but a red-gold glow that seems to come from within the contours of the breastplate. The quiet shimmer suggests at any moment that it may fade to a quiet dusk or brighten to a blazing dawn. The metal itself looks alive and proud to guard the warrior it girds." |
12-03-2021, 11:01 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chagrin Falls
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Re: Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
It can be whatever color the heat treatment/surface treatment produce.
E.g. if the final step of working Orichalcum is anodization then any of the following colors (or more) are possible. https://www.sunshielder.com/wp-conte...-Treatment.jpg
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12-03-2021, 02:10 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
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12-08-2021, 01:11 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: Orichalcum - What Does it Look Like?
Safety orange.
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