Unobtainium -- of course. :)
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I am not aware of any canon material that answers this question.
If I was going to guess, I would note the following:
The starstone came from a meteorite or something similar. It would make sense that it is some kind of sky metal. The known kinds of sky metal are: Abysium/Feverstone, Adamantine, Djezet/Quickiron, Horaculum, Inubrix, Noqual and Siccatite. Now, I would rule out several of these because of their appearance (Djezet is a liquid at all temperatures) or their properties (Abysium sickens those near it). There is one, however that fits well: Horaculum. It is described as the rarest of the skymetals and it is said to bend time around it.
So, my conjecture is that the starstone is a giant hunk of Horaculum *or* somekind of unique skymetal never seen before.
If it is Horaculum, it allows for some very interesting elements to be included as part of the Test of the Starstone. In the bent time around it one could encounter other people attempting the test from all time -- past and future. One may find it necessary to defeat oneself from an earlier point in the test. And, at the end of the test, one could find themselves in a room with Norgorber, Cayden Cailean and Iomedae -- all at the same moment of completing the test. Lots of possibilities.
TL;DR; Canon doesn't say, but I think Horaculum's time bending property would make a good choice.
Purest refined phlebotinum.
I think it's made of starstone, the only known example of which is itself.
I am not aware of any canon material that answers this question.
If I was going to guess, I would note the following:
The starstone came from a meteorite or something similar. It would make sense that it is some kind of sky metal. The known kinds of sky metal are: Abysium/Feverstone, Adamantine, Djezet/Quickiron, Horaculum, Inubrix, Noqual and Siccatite. Now, I would rule out several of these because of their appearance (Djezet is a liquid at all temperatures) or their properties (Abysium sickens those near it). There is one, however that fits well: Horaculum. It is described as the rarest of the skymetals and it is said to bend time around it.
So, my conjecture is that the starstone is a giant hunk of Horaculum *or* somekind of unique skymetal never seen before.
If it is Horaculum, it allows for some very interesting elements to be included as part of the Test of the Starstone. In the bent time around it one could encounter other people attempting the test from all time -- past and future. One may find it necessary to defeat oneself from an earlier point in the test. And, at the end of the test, one could find themselves in a room with Norgorber, Cayden Cailean and Iomedae -- all at the same moment of completing the test. Lots of possibilities.
TL;DR; Canon doesn't say, but I think Horaculum's time bending property would make a good choice.
Sounds like some quality theory crafting there. o-o Nice stuff. I buy that.
There you go, Starstuff :) We will have to ask Neil Gayman :)
I coulda sworn I saw a reference to Stonestuff in it as well. *shrugs*
Greg
Starstuff.
Is that before or after Cayden Cailean mistook it for the urinal in that new bar he thought he'd wandered into?
Starstuff.
Beat me to it. Well done, sir.
I think it's made of only the best stuff on Earth.
Godamnitite!
Its made of people.
Boat nectar?
PCP
There is one, however that fits well: Horaculum. It is described as the rarest of the skymetals and it is said to bend time around it.
So, my conjecture is that the starstone is a giant hunk of Horaculum *or* somekind of unique skymetal never seen before.
If it is Horaculum, it allows for some very interesting elements to be included as part of the Test of the Starstone. In the bent time around it one could encounter other people attempting the test from all time -- past and future. One may find it necessary to defeat oneself from an earlier point in the test. And, at the end of the test, one could find themselves in a room with Norgorber, Cayden Cailean and Iomedae -- all at the same moment of completing the test. Lots of possibilities.
This is a really interesting idea.
Sweet and sour and lots of power?
Maybe it's made of nothing. It's actually a rift in time and space, a place that is no place, where all possibilities are equally possible and yet equally impossible, where entropy begins the universe and time is nothing more than an outmoded concept....
Crack-rock
I'd say if you ask the likes of Norgorber, it's made from hubris.Wouldn't asking Norgorber anything just be a waste of time? He is the god of secrets afterall.
Your response just made his joke 10 times better.
Although Golarion and other typical high-fantasy settings have much more advanced understanding of metallurgy than during the Middle Ages, I always considered that in a more Medieval or low-fantasy settings, "star-metal" would be an alloy of iron-nickel, which is the composition of most ferrous meteorites than reach Earth.
Nickel is used nowadays in more advanced steel alloys, especially when corrosion and weight are considered (as in aeronautics and stainless steel allows). Still, a lighter, corrosion-resistant blade always appeared to me as a staple of your typical "magic sword".
In the Middles Ages, nickel was known but shunned because is was misidentified as copper. Since it would not smelt or work like copper, it was rejected and considered "bad copper" or "Nickel-copper" (after some mischievous mining sprite called Nickel). But if they had the idea of mixing it with iron, they would have discovered pretty good alloys (magical alloys?)
'findel
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Bahh, just realized tread is a about STARSTONE, not STARMETAL. While I think nickel is cool, I doubt it has the ability to ascent people to godhood...
... or perhaps I should start collecting my 5 cents...
Bahh, just realized thread is a about STARSTONE, not STARMETAL. While I think nickel is cool, I doubt it has the ability to ascent people to godhood...
... or perhaps I should start collecting my 5 cents...
Ya, I likewise had considered starmetal (adamantium) to just be meteoric iron. It was used on earth during late stone age, early bronze age before/during the discovery of arsenical bronze.
As for the starstone...
Cheese? Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese...
Barring cheese...
Why couldn't the starstone be made of an incredibly radioactive substance? It would explain why so many individuals fail. In fact, you could argue that all of the test-takers die, including those who "succeed". The true Test of the Starstone isn't whether you survive, it's whether you have the strength of will, the luck, the strength of self to deny yourself to Pharasma's Boneyard and claw your way to ascension. Essentially the only test-takers who succeed are those who had the potential spark of divinity in the first place.
Of course, given the way radioactivity works this would also mean that over time the starstone is shrinking, dissolving, decomposing into lead that crumbles away. Your task, should you wish to take the test of the starstone, is to pull away all the crumbled lead from the radioactive heart of the stone itself. And may your divine spark awaken.
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I think the Starstone isn't made of anything. It exists as a whole in itself, immune to both division and multiplication, unchanging itself and always changing that which is around it. It is what it is form notwithstanding, much as a god isn't made of flesh and a spell isn't made of words. The word Starstone is a convenience of mortal perception, not a limitation on its form or function.
The Starstone is made of the Starstone, and nothing else is.
Really old gum.
It's made of McGuffins.
It's obviously made of an editable pdf character sheet that you can use to modify your own stats up to Godly limits.
Aroden once cut-pasted it from C:/Golarion/System/Inner_Sea to C:/Golarion/Desktop/Absalom.
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I think the Starstone isn't made of anything. It exists as a whole in itself, immune to both division and multiplication, unchanging itself and always changing that which is around it. It is what it is form notwithstanding, much as a god isn't made of flesh and a spell isn't made of words. The word Starstone is a convenience of mortal perception, not a limitation on its form or function.
The Starstone is made of the Starstone, and nothing else is.
impressive...you never cease to amaze me
Its made of the souls of those who would become gods. From their hopes and dreams its power was wrought.