The more fae aspects your character takes on, and the more they rely on fae magic, the more iron will begin to hurt them - iron is a fae’s natural kryptonite. The symptoms described below explain how different kinds of iron will affect a character that has already been significantly transformed, and likely already boasts one or more of the rare changes described on this page. Those with lesser fae aspects can scale these effects to be more mild as is deemed appropriate by the severity of their current changes.
► PURE IRON: Unrefined iron element taken directly from the earth, possibly ground into filaments or powder but never smelted. Could also be referred to as “cold iron” as it has never been processed in a furnace. The touch of pure iron is like acid to a fae’s body, and the wounds will linger for much longer than those made by any other cause.
► PIG IRON: Iron ore that has been melted down and molded into brittle iron ingots that are mostly not suitable for crafting or weapon making due to their fragile structure. Any blade made from this will be crude and very easy to break with physical force, but against a fae’s body it will cut with the ease of burning steel. Prolonged, non violent contact with the substance will gradually burn through a fae’s skin.
► WROUGHT IRON: Iron ingots that have been smelted worked by a blacksmith in order to become malleable and easily forged into weapons, tools, and structures. Wrought iron is durable and functional as a weapon. Against a fae, it will strike and wound them as if they are a mortal, and cut through most of a fae’s magical defenses. Prolonged contact with wrought iron will result in increasingly severe nausea, weakness, and sickness, eventually robbing a fae of their strength entirely until the iron is removed and they are allowed to recover. Wrought iron is mostly immune to fae magic.
► STEEL: Iron that has had its carbon content lowered via processing, and that has been alloyed with any number of additional metallic elements. Steel is stronger, cheaper to make, and more durable than wrought iron, but the tampering used to refine it has robbed it of most of its anti-fae qualities. Its iron content still allows it to be more resistant to fae magic than most other materials, and the wounds it creates on fae tend to be more severe than other sources. Prolonged contact with steel, or being in the presence of large amounts of steel, can result in a fae experience increasing feelings of unease, headaches, and other kinds of discomfort.
iron weakness explation
The more fae aspects your character takes on, and the more they rely on fae magic, the more iron will begin to hurt them - iron is a fae’s natural kryptonite. The symptoms described below explain how different kinds of iron will affect a character that has already been significantly transformed, and likely already boasts one or more of the rare changes described on this page. Those with lesser fae aspects can scale these effects to be more mild as is deemed appropriate by the severity of their current changes.
► PURE IRON: Unrefined iron element taken directly from the earth, possibly ground into filaments or powder but never smelted. Could also be referred to as “cold iron” as it has never been processed in a furnace. The touch of pure iron is like acid to a fae’s body, and the wounds will linger for much longer than those made by any other cause.
► PIG IRON: Iron ore that has been melted down and molded into brittle iron ingots that are mostly not suitable for crafting or weapon making due to their fragile structure. Any blade made from this will be crude and very easy to break with physical force, but against a fae’s body it will cut with the ease of burning steel. Prolonged, non violent contact with the substance will gradually burn through a fae’s skin.
► WROUGHT IRON: Iron ingots that have been smelted worked by a blacksmith in order to become malleable and easily forged into weapons, tools, and structures. Wrought iron is durable and functional as a weapon. Against a fae, it will strike and wound them as if they are a mortal, and cut through most of a fae’s magical defenses. Prolonged contact with wrought iron will result in increasingly severe nausea, weakness, and sickness, eventually robbing a fae of their strength entirely until the iron is removed and they are allowed to recover. Wrought iron is mostly immune to fae magic.
► STEEL: Iron that has had its carbon content lowered via processing, and that has been alloyed with any number of additional metallic elements. Steel is stronger, cheaper to make, and more durable than wrought iron, but the tampering used to refine it has robbed it of most of its anti-fae qualities. Its iron content still allows it to be more resistant to fae magic than most other materials, and the wounds it creates on fae tend to be more severe than other sources. Prolonged contact with steel, or being in the presence of large amounts of steel, can result in a fae experience increasing feelings of unease, headaches, and other kinds of discomfort.