Could be. Before we knew what combustion was, people theorized that there was some kind of substance inside things that made fire when they were heated, that being phlogiston. The more of it a material had, the more fire it created, wood and alcohol having a ton, metal and ceramic having nearly none.
>Etherealite: A shimmering crystal that emits a soft glow and possesses ethereal properties. It is said to enhance one's connection to the spirit realm and grant heightened magical abilities.
>Celestium: A radiant metal infused with celestial energy, granting it incredible durability and imbuing any item forged with it with divine blessings. Weapons made from Celestium are said to strike true against evil forces.
>Voidsteel: A dark, ebony-hued alloy forged in the depths of shadowy realms. Voidsteel absorbs magic and can be used to nullify spells or disrupt arcane energies. However, its use comes at a price as prolonged exposure can corrupt the wielder's soul.
>Lumicite: A luminescent gemstone that harnesses pure light energy. Lumicite can be used to create radiant armor or weapons that emit blinding bursts of light, capable of dazzling foes or purging darkness.
>Soulstone: A rare gem infused with trapped souls, each containing unique powers and memories of their former owners. When properly harnessed, Soulstones can bestow incredible abilities upon those who possess them but must be handled with caution due to their volatile nature.
>Aetherium: An otherworldly substance found in meteorites that fell from distant realms beyond our own plane of existence. Aetherium is highly conductive to magical energies and is sought after for its ability to enhance spellcasting prowess.
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You are not staff. You will never be staff. You are a gameless loser who uses "trying to clean up /tg/" as a replacement for playing games. Stop being the worst thing to happen to this board since election tourism.
I don't understand why people flip their lids over benign threads like these when there are actively malicious shitposters who seek to make every discussion worse
Necronium - A highly toxic (radioactive with death) substance even in small amounts emitting corruption. This is in its raw form.
Ghostrock - Thin, impure necronium. This can be used for the construction of explosives and blackpowder.
Fey-steel - If necronium is foul, Feysteel is wyld. Unusually, if 'ordered' and treated in a certain way, this metal can be used for the creation of 'thinking machines' and sentient objects. Within every modron runs a valuable fey-steel core.
Aetherite: a crystalline mineral that is infused with arcane and elemental energies which give it the ability to float. It's found almost exclusively on floating islands and is mainly used in the construction of balloonless airships.
Noxium (from the Latin word "nox", meaning "night")
Lunargentum (from the Latin words "luna", meaning "moon", and "argentum", meaning "silver")
Umbrapetra (from the Latin words "umbra", meaning "shadow", and "petra", meaning "stone")
Stellarium (from the Latin word "stella", meaning "star")
Tenebrium (from the Latin word "tenebrae", meaning "darkness")
Noctem (from the Latin accusative case of "nox", meaning "night")
Luxumbra (from the Latin words "lux", meaning "light", and "umbra", meaning "shadow")
Siderium (from the Latin word "sidus", meaning "constellation")
Lunaevis (from the Latin words "luna", meaning "moon", and "aevis", meaning "age")
Noctisgemma (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "gemma", meaning "gem")
Noxexordium (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "exordium", meaning "beginning")
Noxipater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "pater", meaning "father")
Noxmater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "mater", meaning "mother")
Noxinfans (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "infans", meaning "infant")
Noxioculus (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "oculus", meaning "eye")
Noxiosoror (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "soror", meaning "sister")
Noxiofrater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "frater", meaning "brother")
Noxiosanguis (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "sanguis", meaning "blood")
Noxioanima (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "anima", meaning "soul")
Noxiocor (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "cor", meaning "heart")
Noxiospiritus (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "spiritus", meaning "spirit")
Noxiolux (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "lux", meaning "light")
Worlds Without Number has "hepatizon," which is an old name for black bronze. I'm also a fan of settings that smash together a word or descriptor with an existing metal to get a magical version, like sungold, moonsilver, hellsteel, starmetal, and so on.
Golden Fleece is underused.
Nornfiber I think was from God of War; the stuff from which is woven the threads of fate.
Adamantine, Cold Iron, Galvorn, Inherited Silver, Oathgold, Moonsilver, Nacreon, Quicksteel, Rhinegold (also underused), Starmetal, Wintersilver
Adder Stone (smooth rock with a hole in it, proto-abacus piece, lots of mysticism around them)
Altar Stone (holy bricks)
Bezoar (condensed stuff from an animal’s stomach supposedly cures poison), Chintimani Stone, Fulgurite (glass made by lightning strike), Jorium (psychic crystals from SC), Lacrima (word means tears), Sun Diamond (basically a silmaril)
Bierwood (wood from a funeral pyre)
Groaning Stick (wood from a tree struck by lightning)
Any stick used to kill a snake was said to have magic powers by some african tribes.
Lebethron, Shamrocks
Alkahest (theoretical alchemical universal solvent)
Angel Down and Demon Seed
Unspoken Water (water condensed from outer space, therefore never flowed, never “spoke”)
Slumber-Dust (thank you sandman)
Gaulau, Yliaster
Dragonhide and dragon body parts in general are a mainstay.
That's everything I can think of. Read a book Black person.
Helicite, a greenish crystal named for growing in helical structures.
The people of the world uses it to power their lamps and such by grinding the mineral into a powder, and filtering ethanol through it. The crystals break down, and the ethanol is boiled away, creating a dense, flammable gas.
Unfortunately for people, Helicyte is usually formed when pixies and other fairly-like creatures die. The gas conducts the flow of magic, and as a result, the people of cities that use Helicyte gas are terrified of spellcasters because even a basic frost spell can chill an entire block to freezing levels.
Fulgurite - the real name for the glass-like substance formed when lightning strikes sand or loose dirt
Glede - basically just an old word for a spark, ember, or hot coal, but plenty of potential
Ambergris - also a real thing. When a sperm whale gets a squid beak stuck in their stomach or intestines, the organ in question secretes a substance around it to protect the organ. Kinda like how an oyster secretes nacre around a grain of sand in its shell to form a pearl. When the whales eventually shit this out, it floats to the surface until it biodegrades or washes up on shore.
Petrified wood - yet another real thing, wood that has been literally turned into stone through fossilization
>Petrified wood - yet another real thing, wood that has been literally turned into stone through fossilization
Sort of -- petrification/fossilization are a bit more complex than that. What happens is that the wood largely decomposes, but it's simultaneously replaced by inorganic material either lining it from the inside or replacing it slowly.
This means you basically end up with a stone that perfectly mimics living structures, down to the microscopic level. Definitely feels a bit magical. Maybe it can be used in crafting golems or homonculi?
Decompose, disintegrate, crumble with age, whatever you want to call it. Organic matter can't turn into stone, only be slowly replaced by it.
Also, and this should go without saying, wood-decomposing bacteria did eventually evolve, and it did decompose all those piles of lumber.
Corposant - also called soulfire, faery fire, St. Elmo's fire, or fool's fire, this is a catch-all name for both the lights that form around ships' masts during a storm due to atmospheric electromagnetic phenomena and the lights that form in swamps due to marsh gas released by decomposing matter. Assign supernatural causes to taste.
Eh, technically the marsh lights are the faery fires or will-o-the-wisps, but if you were using corposant as a term for the actual substance the lights are made of in both cases I could see that
Ectoplasm - supposedly a substance either generated by ghostly activity (i.e. vomited up by a medium at a seance or a possessed individual) or the thing ghosts are actually made of
I've got different materials for the cultures of my homebrew world. >Paladinite, a gold mana-flecked white granite that amplifies curing spells in its presence. Used by Grandosian elves to build the Ring Shrines, a series of missions and hostels that care for the injured. >Woo Stone, sedimentary rock compacted from black mana-infused sands that blocks magic of any other color. Used by Ashadjinn Orks to seal the natural undead of the Ashad deserts away from the colored mana they hunger for. >Silvargent, metallicised blue mana that is self healing and damage resistant. Used to build a fleet of ships to house the Iravenosii human race before being kicked out of their cities. >Archyron Wood, a steel-hard wood that continues to live after being cut (and can even grow if fed green mana). Archyron trees are grown from wagon-sized seeds over a few years into living fortresses, and their trimmings are turned into weapons and armor for the Rootborn dwarves. >Flarekryst, a brittle glass-like gem of hardened red mana that can store a charge for later use. Amassed like currency by Novoskori dragon dynast warlords to cast rituals of overwhelming power in their cyclical civil wars.
bloodcrete is made by teleporting living humans into solid granite. it's just gross-looking rock but you can grow and reshape it with positive/negative energy
ARCANIUM- Shimmering blue ore that contains a large amount of magical energy. Can be processed into liquid form, which is called mana, and used as fuel for techno-magical devices.
Magical or just extremely extraordinary?
Phlogiston is a good one.
Isn't that a type of gas?
Could be. Before we knew what combustion was, people theorized that there was some kind of substance inside things that made fire when they were heated, that being phlogiston. The more of it a material had, the more fire it created, wood and alcohol having a ton, metal and ceramic having nearly none.
Technically, it’s an aether.
Three I have used in previous campaigns:
>Magmanite (think metallic obsidian with fire/heat properties)
>Ironwood
>Astralite (celestial/astral steel)
Ironwood exists in real life too.
Obdurium is a nice one
Electrum, Palladium, and Painite come to mind
>Electrum, Palladium
Both of these are real materials. I thought OP wanted materials that aren't real.
Orichalcum is also real; we're just not sure whether it meant bronze or brass.
Unobtanium.
Transuranic
Montmorillonite
Ethereum
>Etherealite: A shimmering crystal that emits a soft glow and possesses ethereal properties. It is said to enhance one's connection to the spirit realm and grant heightened magical abilities.
>Celestium: A radiant metal infused with celestial energy, granting it incredible durability and imbuing any item forged with it with divine blessings. Weapons made from Celestium are said to strike true against evil forces.
>Voidsteel: A dark, ebony-hued alloy forged in the depths of shadowy realms. Voidsteel absorbs magic and can be used to nullify spells or disrupt arcane energies. However, its use comes at a price as prolonged exposure can corrupt the wielder's soul.
>Lumicite: A luminescent gemstone that harnesses pure light energy. Lumicite can be used to create radiant armor or weapons that emit blinding bursts of light, capable of dazzling foes or purging darkness.
>Soulstone: A rare gem infused with trapped souls, each containing unique powers and memories of their former owners. When properly harnessed, Soulstones can bestow incredible abilities upon those who possess them but must be handled with caution due to their volatile nature.
>Aetherium: An otherworldly substance found in meteorites that fell from distant realms beyond our own plane of existence. Aetherium is highly conductive to magical energies and is sought after for its ability to enhance spellcasting prowess.
cold iron
What have you done with these names since last time, nogames?
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/filename/f3120544f4bcd85271_Metal_cube_brass/
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You are not staff. You will never be staff. You are a gameless loser who uses "trying to clean up /tg/" as a replacement for playing games. Stop being the worst thing to happen to this board since election tourism.
No. he called him a nogames. that means he is an official staff member and also plays lots. it helps him between trying to force the secondary meme.
I don't understand why people flip their lids over benign threads like these when there are actively malicious shitposters who seek to make every discussion worse
Zetachrome
Węgiel
The extra tongue to the e makes it magical
>The extra tongue to the e makes it magical
Stęęl. Ubermagic material.
Prezcurium
Atium, lerasium.
Necronium - A highly toxic (radioactive with death) substance even in small amounts emitting corruption. This is in its raw form.
Ghostrock - Thin, impure necronium. This can be used for the construction of explosives and blackpowder.
Fey-steel - If necronium is foul, Feysteel is wyld. Unusually, if 'ordered' and treated in a certain way, this metal can be used for the creation of 'thinking machines' and sentient objects. Within every modron runs a valuable fey-steel core.
Aetherite: a crystalline mineral that is infused with arcane and elemental energies which give it the ability to float. It's found almost exclusively on floating islands and is mainly used in the construction of balloonless airships.
Skub
Frick you, skub is lame and people who like it are also lame.
Cheeky and clever
Meteoric iron has a variety of names in a variety of settings.
>skub is lame
I'll kill your whole family.
bitch
Hell yeah! I love Skub!
You an I are enemies now.
Turboelevatorium, strongest material known in the galaxy
Vorpal
>Luminiferous Aether
>Spermaceti
>Orgone
>Ichor
>Triltanium
>Transparent Aluminum
>Cold Iron & Cold steel
>Hephaestium
>Satrurnine Obsidian
>Snake Oil
>Chthonic Gold
Titanite, primordial version of adamantine or something.
this thread is destined to be a bumpgay thread
I'll start 🙂
just find a language model to play with maybe?
Noxium (from the Latin word "nox", meaning "night")
Lunargentum (from the Latin words "luna", meaning "moon", and "argentum", meaning "silver")
Umbrapetra (from the Latin words "umbra", meaning "shadow", and "petra", meaning "stone")
Stellarium (from the Latin word "stella", meaning "star")
Tenebrium (from the Latin word "tenebrae", meaning "darkness")
Noctem (from the Latin accusative case of "nox", meaning "night")
Luxumbra (from the Latin words "lux", meaning "light", and "umbra", meaning "shadow")
Siderium (from the Latin word "sidus", meaning "constellation")
Lunaevis (from the Latin words "luna", meaning "moon", and "aevis", meaning "age")
Noctisgemma (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "gemma", meaning "gem")
Noxexordium (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "exordium", meaning "beginning")
Noxipater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "pater", meaning "father")
Noxmater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "mater", meaning "mother")
Noxinfans (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "infans", meaning "infant")
Noxioculus (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "oculus", meaning "eye")
Noxiosoror (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "soror", meaning "sister")
Noxiofrater (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "frater", meaning "brother")
Noxiosanguis (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "sanguis", meaning "blood")
Noxioanima (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "anima", meaning "soul")
Noxiocor (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "cor", meaning "heart")
Noxiospiritus (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "spiritus", meaning "spirit")
Noxiolux (from the Latin words "nox", meaning "night", and "lux", meaning "light")
Megallium
Stellite
Hydronalium
Perrhenate
Porphyry
Hex-chrome
Praseodymium
Hiduminium
Vitallium
Mu-metal
Copemicium
Worlds Without Number has "hepatizon," which is an old name for black bronze. I'm also a fan of settings that smash together a word or descriptor with an existing metal to get a magical version, like sungold, moonsilver, hellsteel, starmetal, and so on.
Golden Fleece is underused.
Nornfiber I think was from God of War; the stuff from which is woven the threads of fate.
Adamantine, Cold Iron, Galvorn, Inherited Silver, Oathgold, Moonsilver, Nacreon, Quicksteel, Rhinegold (also underused), Starmetal, Wintersilver
Adder Stone (smooth rock with a hole in it, proto-abacus piece, lots of mysticism around them)
Altar Stone (holy bricks)
Bezoar (condensed stuff from an animal’s stomach supposedly cures poison), Chintimani Stone, Fulgurite (glass made by lightning strike), Jorium (psychic crystals from SC), Lacrima (word means tears), Sun Diamond (basically a silmaril)
Bierwood (wood from a funeral pyre)
Groaning Stick (wood from a tree struck by lightning)
Any stick used to kill a snake was said to have magic powers by some african tribes.
Lebethron, Shamrocks
Alkahest (theoretical alchemical universal solvent)
Angel Down and Demon Seed
Unspoken Water (water condensed from outer space, therefore never flowed, never “spoke”)
Slumber-Dust (thank you sandman)
Gaulau, Yliaster
Dragonhide and dragon body parts in general are a mainstay.
That's everything I can think of. Read a book Black person.
Luna Titanium, a.k.a. Gundarium Alloy
Indestructivium
Helicite, a greenish crystal named for growing in helical structures.
The people of the world uses it to power their lamps and such by grinding the mineral into a powder, and filtering ethanol through it. The crystals break down, and the ethanol is boiled away, creating a dense, flammable gas.
Unfortunately for people, Helicyte is usually formed when pixies and other fairly-like creatures die. The gas conducts the flow of magic, and as a result, the people of cities that use Helicyte gas are terrified of spellcasters because even a basic frost spell can chill an entire block to freezing levels.
Fulgurite - the real name for the glass-like substance formed when lightning strikes sand or loose dirt
Glede - basically just an old word for a spark, ember, or hot coal, but plenty of potential
Ambergris - also a real thing. When a sperm whale gets a squid beak stuck in their stomach or intestines, the organ in question secretes a substance around it to protect the organ. Kinda like how an oyster secretes nacre around a grain of sand in its shell to form a pearl. When the whales eventually shit this out, it floats to the surface until it biodegrades or washes up on shore.
Petrified wood - yet another real thing, wood that has been literally turned into stone through fossilization
>Petrified wood - yet another real thing, wood that has been literally turned into stone through fossilization
Sort of -- petrification/fossilization are a bit more complex than that. What happens is that the wood largely decomposes, but it's simultaneously replaced by inorganic material either lining it from the inside or replacing it slowly.
This means you basically end up with a stone that perfectly mimics living structures, down to the microscopic level. Definitely feels a bit magical. Maybe it can be used in crafting golems or homonculi?
>stone that thinks it's wood
Definitely some kind of potential for elemental invocation magic.
The wood didn't decompose. Nothing alive at the time could digest cellulose.
Decompose, disintegrate, crumble with age, whatever you want to call it. Organic matter can't turn into stone, only be slowly replaced by it.
Also, and this should go without saying, wood-decomposing bacteria did eventually evolve, and it did decompose all those piles of lumber.
Corposant - also called soulfire, faery fire, St. Elmo's fire, or fool's fire, this is a catch-all name for both the lights that form around ships' masts during a storm due to atmospheric electromagnetic phenomena and the lights that form in swamps due to marsh gas released by decomposing matter. Assign supernatural causes to taste.
Eh, technically the marsh lights are the faery fires or will-o-the-wisps, but if you were using corposant as a term for the actual substance the lights are made of in both cases I could see that
Ectoplasm - supposedly a substance either generated by ghostly activity (i.e. vomited up by a medium at a seance or a possessed individual) or the thing ghosts are actually made of
Nillkigger
Nuckhigger
Natehigger
>Give me more.
Cavorite, and you can't tell me that's not magical.
Go ask an AI chatbot these question, we can just automate these nonsense threads now.
kys moron
I've got different materials for the cultures of my homebrew world.
>Paladinite, a gold mana-flecked white granite that amplifies curing spells in its presence. Used by Grandosian elves to build the Ring Shrines, a series of missions and hostels that care for the injured.
>Woo Stone, sedimentary rock compacted from black mana-infused sands that blocks magic of any other color. Used by Ashadjinn Orks to seal the natural undead of the Ashad deserts away from the colored mana they hunger for.
>Silvargent, metallicised blue mana that is self healing and damage resistant. Used to build a fleet of ships to house the Iravenosii human race before being kicked out of their cities.
>Archyron Wood, a steel-hard wood that continues to live after being cut (and can even grow if fed green mana). Archyron trees are grown from wagon-sized seeds over a few years into living fortresses, and their trimmings are turned into weapons and armor for the Rootborn dwarves.
>Flarekryst, a brittle glass-like gem of hardened red mana that can store a charge for later use. Amassed like currency by Novoskori dragon dynast warlords to cast rituals of overwhelming power in their cyclical civil wars.
Õřįçĥåłćøŋ
Unobtainium
Sneedalite
Donutsteel
Catadium, rare and can only be mined from Cat Meowntain
bloodcrete is made by teleporting living humans into solid granite. it's just gross-looking rock but you can grow and reshape it with positive/negative energy
>it's just gross-looking rock
Seems like a good way to get ghosts
>ghosts
Living Walls, Anon, Living Walls
It's funny, the instant I hit submit I remembered the Living Wall.
ARCANIUM- Shimmering blue ore that contains a large amount of magical energy. Can be processed into liquid form, which is called mana, and used as fuel for techno-magical devices.