Iron Ore

Iron does not show itself to those who only scratch at the ground. A miner must go down past the soil before the first red seams of it appear, and it is lower, among the shale, that whole walls are iron. There it is plentiful and the sacks come up heavy. Most of the swords in Alora were iron ore once, and so were the nails in the doors of Tarsonis, and the smiths hold that a people may be judged by what it does with its iron.

Details

• It lies from level 3 below the surface to the bottom, in an ore deposit, and there is far more of it from level 10 down.
• It takes a mining pick and Pitter (Mining) at level 10. Below that level the ore is destroyed as it is dug.
• With coal it is smelted into iron ingots at Pitter (Smelting) level 10, into steel at e50, and into dwarven steel at e450.