Tag: kuronium

OOC : Well, I had an ask for this, but when I went to screencap it I couldn’t find it anymore. Aaaaaaalrighty then.

Someone asked for tips on shading Kuronium, so here they be! I’ll admit that I have an awful time explaining things for tutorials, but hopefully these will help 😀

I will also be doing a “How to draw Kaos” tutorial too! But if there are any other tutorials you would like to see from me, feel free to suggest some! ^u^ I apologize these do take a wee bit to do. I will now be tagging any and all tutorials in their own tag as linked below! (or, just type in ‘tutorial’ in the search bar of the Weirdlanders page)

Other Tutorials (tutorial tag)

Did your people use some sort of magic to melt Kuronium? Or was it something that only needed high temperatures?

Lost Queen : Your first guess was correct, actually. Dark magic and unique malevolent fire of some sort (like shadow fire, aura fire…there’s lots of different types of fire) was traditionally used to hone Kuronium. The smithing done in Kurosia was the best, most advanced forms of this, as we had the blacksmiths (that often doubled as priests and priestesses for Wunjabrot, our blacksmithing god) that could sing the prayers needed for Wunjabrot to bless the metal, making it powerful and the most magical. It’s still possible to smelt our metal other ways, but it’s often not as strong as Wunjin-honed Kuronium. The metals I have now aren’t as strong as they once were, as Wunjabrot is… silent, like most of the other Gods.

Is it possible for a Kuros to break it’s bones? Because…I have an ugly feeling that metal tends to bend more than break…

Lost Queen : And here’s a great fault in our bones; yes, they bend more than break. However, it’s the flesh around the bone that gets the most damage before the metal even bends. Broken or bent bones are rare, usually if a Kuros is under that much pressure, they’re already dead, the limb is torn off or the flesh is so destroyed it has to be amputated. It’s the muscle and joints that are shredded before any bending or breaking happens. 

I’ve had my share of torn muscles, dislocated sockets, and ripped cartilage to say without a doubt that IT THOKT’N HURTS. 

I’ve been wanting to ask this for MONTHS! If all the Kuros are dead (more or less), where is Hysteria going to get her traditional bone jewelry? Grave robbing, or something else? Does Havok get Kurosian jewelry too?

Lost Queen : I had personal reserves of it that I guess Malefor and his apes didn’t find and steal. When I returned to Kurosia, I assumed Malefor took as many bodies with him to use, or he let the apes have them (a horrible fate… no wonder those souls are so lost). I have enough to use for my family, but eventually, they will run out. There might be more in the city for all I know, or in the catacombs, but I dare not look. Havok used to find random bones around the castle as a child, Hiss seems less interested in exploring. So far, I’ve been smart with what I have. The most I’ve used was for Havok’s tails.

Lost Queen : That it does, yes. Even our teeth are the same color as our horns, though I have seen those that have multicolored horns/teeth, etc. Those are also rare too, and there’s a reason why.

Kurosia was the heart of all Kurosians. It was where we as a species first came into being. The kuros that lived here were of silver and grey skeletons, sometimes black, but other colors such as copper, gold etc are actually from past cities that were destroyed. Those with colored horns are the children of those survivors. So unfortunately, there were more silver/grey Kuros than other shades due to Kurosia being the longest standing city with the highest population.

This is gonna seem like an odd question Lost Queen but if your bones are made of metal, does that mean you’re more susceptible to heat and electricity? Depending about your bones melting point and conductivity.

Lost Queen : Oh not odd at all really, our metal bones have confused other species, but it’s something my people were EXTREMELY proud of. 

Kuronium is one of the most strongest, if not THE strongest metal in the verse. It’s almost impossible to break our bones or even melt them. The way our blacksmiths would melt them down would be to pray to Wunjabrot, the God of Blacksmithing, while using specialized tools and magical fires. How the Arkeyans were able to melt our bones is beyond me, I never stopped to ask them. 

But there are downsides to our bones. If our horns are struck with some materials, or a noise hitting the right pitch, our bones ring and can disable us momentarily. Or permanently, depending on the severity.

During the first years of the Arkeyan betrayal, the Arkeyan Dragon Hunters invented a deadly whistle. It played a frequency that could make our skulls rattle to a point it would make us deaf, blind, and unable to smell or control our bodies. That invention slaughtered many of our people, but the Kuros of the past were able to find out who invented them, killed them, destroyed all instructions to build the whistle, and burned the city. I have never heard or have seen this whistle in my lifetime, but I’m very glad I haven’t.