Metal Transformation
(Alteration)

Range:  10 feet
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  Permanent
Casting Time:  1 round per pound
Area of Effect:  One pound per level
Saving Throw:  Special

This spell causes metals to transform into another metal. The change is permanent and completely irreversible except by another spell of this kind. The following table shows which metals can be affected and into which metals they could be changed at which level of the caster:

	Wizard's
	Level	Metals affected
	9-11	soft metals (but not gold) into iron and vice versa
	12-13	iron to steel and vice versa
	14-15	steel to mithril
	16-17	mithril to adamantine
	18+	adamantine to hizagkuur or black iron, as in an Ironstar mace

The last entry is placed so high due to the fact that hizagkuur metal has highly anti-magical properties (see Dwarves Deep), and it has to be changed in a red or white hot state so it will be affected by it. Black iron is an invention of the Ironstar clan and is a very rare (and now not so rare any more) metal normally found only in the possession of the Ironstar clan.
If the item to be transformed is a magical item it gains a saving throw versus spell as its creator. If this succeeds, the caster suffers a backlash of 1d10 hit points of damage per level which is required to transform the metal, but the item is not transformed. If it fails, the caster still suffers damage, but the item is transformed. The caster does not gain a saving throw to reduce the damage.
The casting time is one round per pound of metal per level required to change it, so a caster trying to change mithril to adamantine would have to cast 16 rounds per pound to be changed. The transformations above cannot be compressed into one change. Thus, to change iron into hizagkuur, one would have to transform the metal four times (and try to heat adamantine until it is red hot - you would probably need dragon breath).
The material component is a tiny bit (about a nail size) of the metal to be affected and another bit of the type it is to be changed into.

