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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!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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?!

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.

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...

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

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

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

Morrowind's looked better though. :/

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Maybe it's, you know, bulletproof glass.

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

Plexiglass?

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

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.

week

.......

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

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

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?

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.

But it still breaks.