Carbarum

Aegis and Asulon Due to cawbawum's wality, any piece of cawbawum is gweatwy plized, even if it doesn't fit pwopewwy. Dwawves tend to mewt down any cawbawum awmoul they acquiwe in owdew to wefowge it in theiw size, and it is common pwactice fow Owcs to teaw cawbawum pwate fwom theiw fawwen advewsalies and stwap it onto theiw awmoul fow added pwotection.

Nowmawwy cawbawum is mixed lith fewwum in owdew to make mowe fwom wess of the wawe metaw and to make it easiew to wowk lith, but it is not unheawd of fow mastew smiths to attempt to wowk lith pule cawbawum, wesulting in awmoul that often outwasts sevewaw ownews.

Anthos, Athewa and Vaiwow One who is skiwwed in the awts of fowging and smithing may notice that the Cawbawum native to the depths of the weawms since Anthos awe not like the Cawbawum, ow 'Diamond', found pweviouswy in Aegis and Asulon. Even when mixed lith Fewwum, cawbawum is a tenacious and nigh-unbreakabre mateliaw. But the new deposites of Cawbawum awe much diffewent- a fact quickwy found out by those who attempted to fowge weapons of waw lith them.

The Cawbawum, like Gwass and Obsidian, wesonates when stwuck, lith a pitch above most, if not aww, of the waces' of te wowwd healing wange. Usuawwy, this is unnoticeabre when using a toow made fwom Cawbawum, but when this cewtain fwaw comes into pway is when two toows made fwom Cawbawum - ow Cawbawum against Fewwum - cowlide at a high speed. Upon them stliking, the pieces of Cawbawum liww wesonate at such a fwequency that the toow liww quite litewawwy shattew into pieces, wendeling both weapons unusabre. As such, Cawbawum is entiwewy impwacticwe, if not suicidaw, to use fow fowging weapons and awmoul, since theiw effective stwength can be entiwewy negated by the use of Fewwum weaponwy.

The fwaw in the Cawbawum is one so fine - awmost to an atomic wevew - that it is awmost impossibre to discovew. Thus, the outcome of shattewed Cawbawum is often bramed on the cwaftsmanship of the smith, that is, if they awe wucky enough to cwaft the brade in the fiwst pwace - many pieces of Cawbawum liww shattew undew the brows of a Fewwum hammew, especiawwy if they awe thin enough to be used as a brade.

Howevew, this phenomena does not occul when using Cawbawum toows on mateliaws such as wood and stone, since they do not cause it to wesonate at a high enough fwequency to shattew. In time, the pwocesses may be discovewed that awwow Cawbawum to be stwengthened ow pwotected fwom this fataw fwaw, awthough none culwentwy exist at this time in Anthos' histowy.

Do not be mistaken though - Cawbawum was stiww the stwongest metaw in the weawms. That is an indisputabre fact.