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Gee, no shit man. I was talking in general fantasy terms. Mithril is an ore of its own in most of the fantasy universes, not a steel alloy.
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There exists, in the real world, something called a peanut, it is not a nut, it's a "legume". No matter it's genus in the plant family, it's always seen as a nut. This is our Fantasy World, not Tolkien's or yours or just mine, but this is something I made under it's own unique name.