Ironwood

For another meaning of "Ironwood", please see Ironwood (spell).

Ironwood is a form of wood with the properties of steel, including its strength, weight, and fire resistance.✝✝ Although ironwood cannot burn, it can be hardened through exposure to fire.

It can grow as natural trees, and can also be created by transforming other types of wood by use of the ironwood spell.

On Golarion

Keys, weapons, and armor can be crafted from or converted to ironwood. Coins from an unknown civilization have washed up on the shores of Absalom as flotsam.

Some foreign buildings in Free Station are said to be made of Mwangi Jungle ironwood. The long-beaked emperor bird of the Mwangi Expanse has a beak capable of penetrating ironwood tree trunks to eat the golden sting ants that live within.

Old Tillimaquin, the taxidermied cryptid mascot of unknown provenance, is mounted on an ironwood slab.

In the Great Beyond

The Vault of Thorns is a demiplane bordering the Universe and First World, and is made at least in part of ironwood branches that function as doorways and bridges between its rooms.

The House at the Edge of Time in Thousandbreaths is covered in vines made of ironwood.