Talk:Orikalkum Metal/@comment-109.163.234.3-20140130214753/@comment-25345260-20140823010050

Actually... We don't know for certain. We know dragon metal can become corrupted, but the terms are likely different, and it's certainly a different form of rust. For example:


 * The Kiteshields with the Queen Black Dragon have been there for milennia, in a damp area, and haven't shown any sign of rust.


 * Dragon Full Helmets are likely only as old as the Mithril Dragons that drop them, or as old as Dragonkin have been at the Dragonkin Forge.  Also a wet, easily corrossive area.


 * Dragon Wards, Hastae, and Knives are only found dropped in Freneskae (Game Mechanically) by the Muspah, who presumably can't make them.  They may have been left there much longer, but even Freneskae's hostile environment can't corrupt them easily.

However, there is only one place in lore that corrupted Dragon Equipment is found, and that is in the hands of the departed Revenants who faced the God Wars' bloodiest battle, the one where Zamorak set off the equivalent of a nuclear bomb in what is now the Wilderness.

The tool used by Zamorak is known to the Gods and Humanoids as the Stone of Jas, the Eye of Saradomin, and the Fist of Guthix. However, to Jas and the other Elders, and their most direct servants, it is known as The Catalyst. It is said to most reflect Jas' power, which seems to be mostly tied to progression and time.

Essentially, I am saying that Dragon Metal can rust, but you need a very large amount of power that rapidly progresses the rusting process (such as a catalyst does in chemical reactions) in order for it to rust in any notable amount of time. Even then, the rusted Corrupted Dragon still works for a pretty long amount of time in theory, before it becomes useless.