She nods and shivers a little. "It feels like cold iron, though I can tell it isn't," she replies. He'll discover, with a bit of research, that the sheer volume of the material required, even purified and refined, make it prohibitive as a defensive tool; one would need almost twenty feet of thickness in a wall to negate divine power on any serious scale, the the material is flaky and of poor quality for building, shattering easily if purified and refined into such a state. Only the fact that there are entire mountains made out of it has any impact on the valley.<br/><br/>"I think I'll stay. I can handle myself, after all." The valley is populated by five different tribes of humanoids; to the east, a large clan of minotaur make their home. Gnolls and hobgoblins make their homes to the south, while to the north, kobolds and the only 'normal' race, a small clan of elves. The minotaur have the most territory, but their land is also easily accessible from all but the elven lands, making their lands difficult to hold, and difficult to expand.