Metal Ram
Horn and Bone Types
At birth, the horns of a metal ram, are made of an alloy of the metals its parents' horns are made of. For example, if one parent has copper horns and the other tin, then the child will have bronze horns. If the parents have the same horn type, the child will be born with that horn type.
If a metal ram eats a metal - ore or a pure form - their horns start to transform into that kind of metal, if it is sturdier than the metal its horns are already made from.
If a metal ram eats anything flammable, their horns start to become made of pure carbon, unless they previously had iron horns, at which point their horns start to become steel.
A metal ram's bones are made of the same metal as its horns.
If a metal ram fights another metal ram for any reason, the victor will eat the horns of the loser, leaving only horn stubs. The loser must then eat some metal in order to grow new horns.
Whenever the metal of a ram's horns changes, for any reason, a single band of colour 1mm wide will be left at the base of the horns. This does not affect the skeleton, or the durability of the horn, it merely increases the length of the horn, and is essentially a cosmetic change. The result is that it is very easy to see how a metal ram has progressed, and is a very vague indicator to how old the metal ram is.
Large amounts of metal is required to change horn type, less is required the more pure it is, the horns of a metal ram are the purest, most perfect form the metal can be, meaning eating other metal ram horns is the fastest method to change horn types.
Horn Length and Power
Every metal ram rank is at least 10x as strong as the previous rank, this means that a king metal ram is at least 1000x stronger than an average common metal ram
Crown Horns
The crown horns of a metal ram are slightly different than its normal horns. They are not needed to be very sturdy, due to the fact that their only purpose is to display rank.
There are three rankings of crown horns, and for ranks of society for metal rams.
Platinum is better than gold, which is in turn better than silver.
These horns are not passed down to children, and can only be gained through eating the corresponding metal. Normally this is from eating the horns of a defeated ram.
The crown horns also leave behind rings just like on normal horns, displaying the path to leadership this ram has taken. You would be hard pressed to find a common-born ram with pure platinum crown horns.
The ranks associated with the crown horns are as follows;
Platinum - King
Gold - Noble
Silver - Knight
None - Commoner
Ranks and Challenges
There are rules associated with challenging another ram. The main one is that a metal ram is only allowed to challenge a ram that is one rank above it, and below. For example, if you are a knight ranked metal ram, then you can challenge a noble, another knight, or a commoner.
There are reasons for each of those things. Challenging a noble would give the knight a chance at a higher rank, challenging another knight would increase the size of its crown horns, and challenging a commoner would grant a chance at stronger horns, although this benefit is applicable in the previous two cases as well.
If a noble eats the horns of a knight, their horns get longer by 1/10 of the amount that eating equally sized noble horns.This is the same for a king eating noble horns, and it becomes 1/1000 if they eat knight horns.