What color is adamantine?

[Da Beast]

Yes, I realize that this question is stupid and random, but I honestly want to know.

[Arang]

I think it's dark gray and pretty dull. Think.

My experience being the Adamantine Golems in BG2 and the Adamantine Bar in NWN.

[Bag_of_Holding]

I always thought it'd be black. Something like Hinjo's katana.

[Nebo_]

I always imagined it as sort of a purply-yellow, or a reddish green.

[Artemician]

Wierd.. I always pictured it as a sort of reddish/ochre colour. No idea why.

[Proven_Paradox]

I've always thought it a dark blue color.

There is a surprising lack of consensus here.

[Pronounceable]

Dull, dark gray I think. What other exotic stuff is there apart from adamantine and mithril (which we all know is shining silver) and what color are they?

[Decoy69]

I my head, it's always looked like Uranium. Which makes no sense becaues Uranium is softer than steel....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...HEUraniumC.jpg

[Miraqariftsky]

I agree with Bag of Holding. I've always imagined adamantine as incredibly hard and the colour of soot.

Dark blue or purple? Nah, that's byeshk, yo...

[mostlyharmful]

Gun Metal Grey for me. Possibly with an oily edge to it in the right light.

[Thufir]

I always thought it was black. In fact, I thought it said so in the DMG, but I just checked, and it doesn't.

[senrath]

I've always imagined it as sort of a dull greyish green color.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

I always thought of it as gray, but I think the color says more about the poster than the metal itself.

[AslanCross]

I always thought of it as a very dark shade of purple, almost black.

[Half-blood]

I Always thought it was a darkish green as well.

[Zenos]

I always thought of it as green, may jsut be that the first time I heard about anything sounding like adamant it was in Runescape.

[Kristoss]

In the epic level handbook, an adamentine golem is described as appearing like a huge iron golem. By this you could assume that it is grey like iron, but their is no official word that I can find.

[streakster]

I assumed purple as well.

[senrath]

In the epic level handbook, an adamentine golem is described as appearing like a huge iron golem. By this you could assume that it is grey like iron, but their is no official word that I can find.

Of course, since it doesn't actually mention color it could be interpreted that it looks like an iron golem, but may or may not be the same color.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

I always imagined it to be a dull, bronze-like color. This mainly comes from my experience in playing Age of Mythology, where the gates you're trying to protect are reputedly made from adamantine. The metal on the doors looks like bronze, and that carried over to my experience in D&D. Only recently has that opinion started to shift, seeing as how adamantine in NWN2 appears to be an almost pitch-black metal.

[Wolf53226]

Brushed silver, not shiny like the silver in fancy silverware. Although I could certainly go with gun metal like mostlyharmful suggested.

[Dark Knight Renee]

Darker than steel, possibly almost black; either a dark grey, grey-blue, a purplish or a similar. My mental image is slightly un-specific. I suspect I get this darker color from the Adamantine Golem in NWN.

[Ossian]

Sorry to state the obvious, but Adamantine sounds a lot like diamonds.
One can give the color he likes to his alloys and special metals, and can make it change from the raw material to the finished and polished product. Still, often names are pickes on what the thing looks like. Emeralds were "green stones" and so on...

Thus, Adamant might look like a quartz looking crystalline material, with spikes and sharp jutted surfaces, a bit like the Krypton crystals from Superman's comics and movies.

When polished and forged into a smooth blade, I see it having many traits in common with a shiny blueish steel, with a sort of dusty, irregular texture all along the surface, coarse to touch like a fine sandpaper sheet, cold, glittering in the sun (and, of course, projhecting concentrig hexagons of light from the tip when held aloft....). He Man's Sword of Greyskull could be Adamantine...

O.

[Kaelaroth]

Dull grey, maybe slightly reflective in bright light.

[RTGoodman]

I always think of it as dark blue-gray, though I'm not sure why. I, too, thought it was described that way somewhere, but thinking back over it I don't think it is.

And I'm not sure why I don't think of it as green, since Runescape was also my first experience with a similar material...

[Swooper]

Pitch black, but not dull or matted like some have described it, but with a distinct metallic gleam.

Edit: Come to think of it, I believe this image might originate in me playing with my Lego as a kid. All the swords I owned were gray, except one which was black.

[Glawackus]

A dark grey with hints of blue was what I always thought of. *shrug*

[Charity]

I have always gone for this

the crystals rather than the rock.

[Prometheus]

Black with a blue, green, or purple shine.

[SamTheCleric]

Put me in the Black/Dark Grey crowd... I don't know why. Maybe 2nd edition said something about it?