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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8362262" data-attributes="member: 2629">I'll share my original metal, something I came up when I was ~11 in the 1980s.  Chrysteel - This is a translucent metal.  It is as light as mithril and tougher than adamantine.  Sometimes known as Diamond Metal, it is exceedingly rare and the most valuable commodity in the known universe of my setting.  One needs amazing circumstances to be able to forge it, and it is most often used in tiny amounts along the edge of an edged weapon (or the tip of a piercing one), giving it a 'wet look'.  When crafted perfectly, it is entirely transparent, although it bends light dramatically creating rainbow sheens, or if crafted carefully, hues of only one color of light.It holds enchantment very well (as it ties to the magical weave that holds the universe together), and in many cases can magnify magic.The single most powerful artifact weapon In my setting is the Chrysteel Axe.  It is a Waraxe of Dwarven make that has almost the entire head of the axe made of Chrysteel.  The weapon can cut through anything.  Unfortunately, during the forging of it, a lich snuck their phylactery into the core of the axe (which is now shielded by the Chrysteel), just behind the head, and thus it is essentially cursed.  When one removes the axe from where it is stored, they must contend with the lich - and the only way to prevent the lich from respawning is to bury it within anti-magic when the lich is to return.  As such, when the axe is to be used, the lich must be fought, the axe used, and then it must be returned before the lich returns... and that lich is off the charts nasty.  The first priority of it is to escape when it is released, and if it does so, it becomes one of the worst threats to my multiverse.  I have an entire campaign I've run through twice that starts with the PCs finding the axe, releasing the lich, and then spending their entire lives trying to stop it.</blockquote>

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