Talk:Silver sword/@comment-208.114.92.186-20160910015904/@comment-36037723-20191009163300

You guys missed something. It's explained in the article. It is true that silver is soft. Swords made out of (pure) silver are way too soft and ineffective. However, if you mix the silver with other compounds like steel, so it contains less silver but more steel, then the weapon isn't going to be soft. Another option would be to make a sword in a normal way and then coat the blade with silver.

The silver swords for witchers aren't purely made out of silver. I think it's somewhere mentioned in the books how it's made. The silver swords contain metals from meteorites and iron. Then the blade is coated with silver.