Uru
Licensed IP · Legendary · Timeless
A metal native to the dwarven realm of Nidavellir, uru is the premier enchantable material in the known cosmos. It absorbs and stores magical enchantments with extraordinary efficiency, making it the chosen metal for divine weapons.
Identity
- Source
- Marvel Comics / Norse mythology
- Aliases
- Asgardian metal, Dwarven ore
Physical Properties
- Appearance
- Dull grey-blue ore that becomes lustrous silver-grey when worked; faintly warm to the touch
- Luster
- Metallic
- Density
- 10.5 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 3200 °C
- Lighter
- Silver
- Denser
- Titansteel
- Magnetism
- Non-magnetic
- Electrical conductivity
- High
Mechanical Properties
- Mohs hardness
- 11
- Tensile strength
- 1300 MPa
- Softer
- Voidsteel
- Harder
- Adamantine
- Workability
- Difficult
- Brittleness
- Tough
- Malleability
- Moderate
- Ductility
- Moderate
Chemical Properties
- Corrosion resistance
- absolute
- Reactivity
- none
Lore & Narrative
Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, is the most famous uru weapon. Its enchantment is so deeply bound into the metal that even destroying Mjolnir does not fully release it: the fragments retain the worthiness enchantment independently.
- Notable uses
- Divine weapons, enchanted armor, reality-anchoring relics
- Forge uses
- divine weapons, enchanted armor, relics
- Worldbuilding traits
- divine, enchantable, asgardian, cosmic
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