Thread:High King Ithilion/@comment-34435400-20180413174507

I hate to be a bit of a... how do you say... Character killer, and I've tried to refrain from it but your character lore on your sword bugs be to the point that I had to say something. I have been smithing for quite a while and the fact that your character's sword is 'cooled in the snow of Taniquetli' is impossible, or your character is a really bad smith. I assume you mean it was covered in snow to cool the blade down. Several things are wrong with that 1. The blade would melt the snow and not be cooled 2. if somehow it didn't melt the sword would be Water quenched which means it is structurally 'unsound' no good smith would do that. If you oil quenched it before then set it to cool in the snow it still either melts the snow or you get a 2 time quenched blade which is again structurally unsound meaning the moment you hit something with that sword it will snap or warp or any number of things may happen. I tried quenching one of my axes in snow despite the fact every other smith I met told me it was a bad idea, I thought they were exaggerating so I did it anyways. After I tested it one a log it snapped in half. I thought the quench just when wrong so I grabbed a scrap rod and snow quenched that then I hit a different log, and the rod snapped. 9/10 times a water quench goes badly. I say this with the utmost sincerity it's just been driving me crazy. 