» Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:41 pm
Personally, I never liked the green glass or amber armour. Not because of the material, it's just that the colour and design wasn't to my liking. Now, IF we had well designed weapons and armour made of black Obsidian.... I think I'd wear that.
Wikipedia:
Pure obsidian is usually dark in appearance, though the color varies depending on the presence of impurities. Iron and magnesium typically give the obsidian a dark green to brown to black color. Very few samples are nearly colorless. In some stones, the inclusion of small, white, radially clustered crystals of cristobalite in the black glass produce a blotchy or snowflake pattern (snowflake obsidian). It may contain patterns of gas bubbles remaining from the lava flow, aligned along layers created as the molten rock was flowing before being cooled. These bubbles can produce interesting effects such as a golden sheen (sheen obsidian) or an iridescent, rainbow-like sheen (rainbow obsidian).
Because of this lack of crystal structure, obsidian blade edges can reach almost molecular thinness, leading to its ancient use as projectile points and blades, and its modern use as surgical scalpel blades
Now, who'd like a suit of golden, snowflake or rainbow coloured obsidian armour? I'd also like a black obsidian dagger for my Thief/Assassin thank you!