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Felarya possess a wide variety of metals, stones, or gems only found there. The unstability of Felarya and the strange physical phenomenons that occur there sometimes grant them very strange an unique properties.

Rarity table

• Abundant
• Common
• Uncommon
• Semi-Precious
• Precious
• Rare
• Very Rare
• Legendary

Ascarlin

Rare

Ascarlin, also called dreamstone, is an extremely rare gem, greatly sought in the universe. A single ascarlin is easily worth a dozen times that a diamond of the same size, and empires have waged wars for just a handful of them. Ascarlin is a semi-translucent teal-blue stone with red veins running through it. It's incredibly beautiful and, when socketed in magical artifacts, can increase their power tenfold. It's not *so* rare in Felarya where there is several important deposits in the Ascarlin mountains

Alcazath Crystal

Very Rare

These rare crystals are found within the lower lairs of the Tomb of Alcazath in the Mysterious Temple, and are named after the Tedrek titan king himself. The gem has an odd ability to absorb magic to certain thresholds and then release the energy when it has crossed a limit of energy it can take. One of the more notable uses was serving as a focus in Tedrek Steel weapons and shields, often a coat over the flat parts of the sword so it could be used to effectively parry and reflect magic with training to release it. A sword imbued in this manner was a very high quality weapon- containing the propeties of Tedrek Steel to slice through most stone and almost any metal with ease with magic offensive capabilities. The shields often had a large gem imbedded in the middle to absord higher amounts and could form elemental barriers of what they were struck with. A weakness to the crystal is that it can become unstable after being hit with alternating elements of opposite types- fire and ice for example- and could shatter if not given a proper support frame for it to control the changing energy (namely heavy duty Tedrek Steel). The gems origins are a mystery and could be believed to maybe be a gift from the guardians themselves to the titan king before being locked away in his tomb.

Scintilla

Scintilla is a very rare gem that can only be found at the Pyrale mountains, it forms differely with the amount of heat subjected to it.

Depending on the temperture they can come out in different colours (like a diamond...sort of). Apart from being beautiful jewelry Scintilla's have a natural fire magic within them, when struck with a hard object a spark shoots out.

Irritus

Adlevite

A rather unremarkable appearing metal with very remarkable properties. At first glance, it’s a soft metal that is very malleable, and can be worked into any shape or form fairly easily. However, it is not durable, and will deform or break when even relatively light stress put on it. It is more common for it to be drawn into thread and woven into fabric and clothing. It is a lustrious tan in color when polished.

The remarkable thing about this metal is that it has the strange property of lessening gravity around it. The amount that gravity is lessened and the size of the area affected is proportional to the amount of Adlevite. A volume of a cubic inch is enough to cause a man to weigh only two thirds his original weight when held in one’s palm. A cubic foot of it is enough to render a tank completely weightless. An example of the uses that this mineral has can be seen in the tale of a man who once owned a cloak interwoven with Adlevite thread. When confronted with a predator, he would simply jump and sail up out of the predator’s reach. (Unfortunately, he met an untimely end when a passing fairy thought it would be funny to steal the cloak midjump to drop him into a dridder’s web. It is unknown what became of the cloak.)

The myriad of applications for this material has made it extremely valuable. However, it is also vanishingly rare.

dangerous zone

Very few deposits of it are known, and the knowledge of potential deposits are highly sought after by adventurers and profiteers. It is also being researched intensively by those who wish to find the secrets of synthesizing it. So far, they belive that there is a connection between Adlevite and the Floating field, given their similar effects. Some think that the Floating field is capable of transforming a more mudane substance into Adlevite, and have experimented by leaving samples of various minerals and metals in the Floating field’s path. So far, their search has been fruitless.

Tuc135

Frost Heart (I'm horrible with names, if you got a better sounding one feel free to replace or improve this thing haha)

An uncommon but not too rare gem found on Frost Peak and caves around it. These gems absorb heat from their surroundings and typically serve as a cooling mechanisms for various machinery; they are also popular with some ice nagas to help refresh them and can be used to help enhance frost based magic. It is not advised for humans to handle these gems without protective gloves or gear as the heat leeching properties can cause frostbite.

Asuroth

Eidoron

• Credits to Asuroth for the Alcazath Crystal idea.