Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-12481512-20130717104617/@comment-4057437-20140701070352

King in the North wrote: DarthOrc wrote: Dwemer metal is not the strongest metal on Nirn, nor is it the hardest to forge, according to the Smithing skills tree. It does not appear to us to be any better than some the high quality aluminum bronzes we are familiar with and it resembles them. The only difference is that no one alive on Nirn knows how to produce it from ore (or a combination of ores). By quality, I did not mean in terms of strength, but longevity. Of course, there are obviously real life alloys and metals which are rather corrosion resistant, but I recall that no metal is completely corrosion resistant and some point would corrode over extremely long periods of time. Dwemer metal, on the other hand, never corrodes at all. If I am wrong about the former point though, forgive me, real life metallurgy is not my strong point. The "Noble" metals - gold and platinum never rust or corrode (if the ring your sweetie gave you turned your finger green it was either a fake or a very low grade alloy).