Mythraline

Neutral Ground For Magic

  Mythraline is an artificial alloy of mythral and a number of other metals, and the only material that is pound for pound more expensive than mythral itself. The origins of mythraline are unknown, though it's suspected to have got its start when dwarven mage-metallurgists began experimenting with the metal stemming from the comet that landed in what are now Drostollorian lands millennia ago, some time around its landing during the Age of Towers (~9500 A.A.R.).   "Without a doubt, this is single important thing I will have ever done. It's a unison of the diligent, rigid craftsmanship of blacksmithing, with the elegant, intellectual art of alechmy. This is a sunrise, defining the horizon on a fresh world for making new materials to create great works. Harmonization." - Pyhrenthus Caller  

The Components, Broken Down

 

Mythral is a primary reagent in mythraline, and the source of its magical potential. The most difficult component to work with, mythral "welds" itself to almost anything that isn't water. Thus, the combination process can largely be done cold, besides the alloying of all of the non-mythral elements with one another. Mythral supplies the mythraline with magical regidity, and the capacity to catalyze magical effects. Functionally, the metal can reach a purity that allows spells to be made with it, much like that of a hand-held, normal mythral crystal. Though this is generally weaker, as finer minutia is not possible with a generally much wider and more impure catalyst such that sar can not wholly pass through. Mythraline, however, can not combine with anything else - including mythral - once it fully "cures".

  Another integral ingredient is pure silver. Silver and mythral are magnetic to one another, seeking one another from great distance. Silver blending with the mythral gives it a metallic coating that works well as a base for other minerals to adhere to. As well, silver is a naturally good catalyst for magic.   The last ingredient is etraline. Also known as coalsteel, starbronze and blackbronze. This material is quite malleable compared to more traditional metals used for warfare. During the welding process, most metals completely lose their structure as they meld with the mythral, but if worked properly, etraline can gain enough rigidity to be supremely hard, without becoming brittle.  

Harmonized Mythraline

 

Mythraline has been a material in constant development for centuries. The extremely difficult to work with Mythral can be alloyed with pure silver, as well as the Drostollorian alloy Etraline to manufacture a material that harbors many of the potent magical affinities of Mythral, without its dangers. The higher the purity of Mythral worked into the alloy, the more potent the effects, and the more useful the material for making items capable of infusing magic into their effects.

 

In 1437 A.C.R., the dwarf Roelakan Melzhrasvjorn had discovered a reliable method for making the material up to a fifty-percent purity with Mythral, finally reaching a level thought only hypothetical. This purity allows for the mythral to resonate truly through the rest of the alloy, meaning a safe way to let non-sartors direct magic. He named it Harmonized Mythraline.