Atlantean Trilogy Archive
An alchemist shapes a clay golem beside copper furnaces and a homunculus in a jar, with whales drifting past a sunken city beyond.

True Iron

Alchemy, Essence

A peacock-colored liquid that gives a weapon (or up to 20 missiles) bonuses by the same weekly process as True Copper.

From the book

A peacock-colored liquid, one fluid ounce, that gives +1 to +4 to one weapon (a sword, dagger, spear, axe, bow and so on) or to a batch of up to 20 arrows or crossbow bolts.

The procedure matches True Copper's: a week of daily dousing per +1, up to four weeks. Only the alchemist who made the essence can do the dousing, an hour every day, and missing a single day ruins the enchantment.

At a glance

Appearance
1 fl. oz. peacock-colored liquid
Effect
+1-4 to a single weapon or up to 20 arrows/bolts
Maximum
4 weeks, as True Copper
Dousing
1 hour daily; missing a day ruins the process; only the essence's creator can douse
Materials
12 drs. of the metal/element component, 1/4 fl. dr. alchahest; aludel, athanor, full laboratory
Time to complete
Minimum 2 weeks
Chance of success
Save vs Will; on failure roll %: 10% or less is a mishap; any failure means repeating the procedure