Tin

Tin was a silver-white metal that, along with copper, constituted bronze alloy. It was also used to make pewter alloy when combined with lead. It was mined in many places throughout Toril and beyond.

History
Circa 1367 DR, Ashabenford was home to a Zhentarim spy, Arvien Blackhair, who worked as a tinsmith. A large number of the inhabitants of Tasseldale were craftsmen, and many of them were tinsmiths. They imported tin and other metals from places such as Sembia or Archendale and then exported the crafts made from them. Around the same year, in the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire, tin was often mined by slaves under command of their efreeti masters.

Applications
Tin was a material used for planar tuning forks. Tuning forks could be used to access planes, and the associated planes for tin were the Elemental Plane of Air and the Quasi-Elemental Planes of Lightning and Vacuum.

Gnomes were known to work with metals such as tin, especially when living among other races. They were skilled at etching and casting such metals.

Production
Tin wasn't actively produced on Toril but was rather extracted. However, Radole, a planet of Winterspace, had extremely high temperatures on the side facing its sun. As such, it was known to actively produce tin in huge molten lakes.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Sentinelspire
 * Video games
 * Neverwinter • Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms • Baldur's Gate III
 * Neverwinter • Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms • Baldur's Gate III