Question About Glass Weapons and Armor?

nord546 · Post by **nord546** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:46 am

Ok this is something that has been bothering me for a while. If a weapon or amor is made of glass..HOW THE HECK DOESN'T IT BREAK!!!!

Cactus · Post by **Cactus** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:32 am

It's not glass in the way that we think of glass, is the simple answer. The long answer can be found here and here. Admittedly those aren't very detailed, but the basics is that glass in Elder Scrolls isn't like, sand heated until it becomes glass, it's made from volcanos and it's very hard and durable. Think diamond (sort of) in the real world, if it were green.

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:41 am

It should also be noted that Ebony isn't wood, and Daedric is highly refined Ebony with a Daedra soul infused in the process.

Edit:
On the subject of armor, Dwarven armor is misnamed, it is Dwemer armor.

nord546 · Post by **nord546** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:43 am

Cactus wrote:It's not glass in the way that we think of glass, is the simple answer. The long answer can be found here and here. Admittedly those aren't very detailed, but the basics is that glass in Elder Scrolls isn't like, sand heated until it becomes glass, it's made from volcanos and it's very hard and durable. Think diamond (sort of) in the real world, if it were green.

O ok I understand what you mean.

Immortal NPC · Post by **Immortal NPC** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:18 pm

Cactus wrote:It's not glass in the way that we think of glass, is the simple answer. The long answer can be found here and here. Admittedly those aren't very detailed, but the basics is that glass in Elder Scrolls isn't like, sand heated until it becomes glass, it's made from volcanos and it's very hard and durable. Think diamond (sort of) in the real world, if it were green.

GREEN GLASS?!

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:25 pm

Immortal NPC wrote:
Cactus wrote:It's not glass in the way that we think of glass, is the simple answer. The long answer can be found here and here. Admittedly those aren't very detailed, but the basics is that glass in Elder Scrolls isn't like, sand heated until it becomes glass, it's made from volcanos and it's very hard and durable. Think diamond (sort of) in the real world, if it were green.
GREEN GLASS?!

Glass armor is volcanic material, not meteoric.

Dark Spark · Post by **Dark Spark** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:40 pm

Kestral wrote:...On the subject of armor, Dwarven armor is misnamed...

What I don't get is the fact that it isn't made out of actual dwarves.

Iron armor is made of iron. Ebony armor is made of ebony. So, what is Elven armor made out of...

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:46 pm

Dark Spark wrote:
Kestral wrote:...On the subject of armor, Dwarven armor is misnamed...
What I don't get is the fact that it isn't made out of actual dwarves.

Iron armor is made of iron. Ebony armor is made of ebony. So, what is Elven armor made out of... :wink:

It would be invariably tasty. Minus the hair that would come with it. The bones would be crunchy, I suspect. :p

m@nyt1mes · Post by **m@nyt1mes** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:00 pm

anyone know what glass is held together with? particularly in morrowind, glass was some blackish material with pieces of glass fastened to it

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:11 pm

Glass armor is held by the same thing:
http://www.uesp.net/w/images/images.new ... _Armor.jpg

Morrowind's looked better though. :/

Silkysmooth · Post by **Silkysmooth** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:29 am

I really hate the look of the Glass helm, I actually don't like the look of many helms and normally don't wear them

Sanguine · Post by **Sanguine** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:31 am

manytimesivewondered wrote:anyone know what glass is held together with? particularly in morrowind, glass was some blackish material with pieces of glass fastened to it

Steel I believe.

@Silkysmooth: The glass helmet looked so much better in Morrowind.

Master Z · Post by **Master Z** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:25 am

Sanguine wrote:@Silkysmooth: The glass helmet looked so much better in Morrowind.

ALL glass armor looked better in morrowind!
So yeah, I agree.

Sanguine · Post by **Sanguine** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:29 am

Master Z wrote:
Sanguine wrote:@Silkysmooth: The glass helmet looked so much better in Morrowind.
ALL glass armor looked better in morrowind!
So yeah, I agree.

Yes Glass armor looked 100 times better in morrowind, hopefully for TES V they will go back to that look.

Flairinsich · Post by **Flairinsich** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:18 pm

they might just change it though. What i mean is that they might be doing another country and it might just be that they want to change the color to say like blue because the ore in the ground is different from the other countries. But in relation i do think that it was better in Morrowind not because it was cool looking but that it was light cost allot and it was hard to find.

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:01 pm

Maybe it's, you know, bulletproof glass.

Valus · Post by **Valus** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:38 pm

Darkheart wrote:Maybe it's, you know, bulletproof glass.

Plexiglass?

Redguard_Master · Post by **Redguard_Master** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:01 pm

We have sentient lizards getting high off licking semi-sentient trees, we can let the glass thing go.

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:36 pm

Redguard_Master wrote:We have sentient lizards getting high off licking semi-sentient trees, we can let the glass thing go.

To the unknowing eye, diamonds look pretty damn week.

Burrito · Post by **Burrito** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:09 am

week

.......

Flairinsich · Post by **Flairinsich** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:29 pm

Hey what if its a week version of a gem kinda like emerald or so and its artificially made by people.

Dogmantra · Post by **Dogmantra** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:32 pm

It's volcanic glass. It says so in Morrowind.

WartBoy95 · Post by **WartBoy95** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:58 pm

Just cause it is called "Glass" doesn't mean it is made of glass in the game.. It's a game. Plus, what glass is green?

urthdigger · Post by **urthdigger** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:57 pm

WartBoy95 wrote:Just cause it is called "Glass" doesn't mean it is made of glass in the game.. It's a game. Plus, what glass is green?

Green glass is actually a fairly frequent color, I know a lot of glass bottles are either brown or green.

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:42 pm

But it still breaks.