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<blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 4527825" data-attributes="member: 93">I believe that whoever came up with it in the 2E days was probably thinking along those lines; I only just made the connection, probably due to having been re-reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, in which quicksilver (or mercury) figures frequently, including being the name of the first book.I like the connection with the stars - I'm also considering drawing a connection between quintessence and &quot;starlight&quot; from the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, which is harvested by Starlight Mages, and used for some of the same purposes.&nbsp; I wonder if Monte Cook was thinking of quiintessence when he wrote it.&nbsp; It has the same anti-aging effects, plus other effects as well.This is a possibility.&nbsp; Various psionic groups in this campaign have tried to use the distilled essence of nightmares to power certain effects (psionic power in my game is dream-related).&nbsp; Perhaps quintessence is important in that process.In strict 3E terms, a large quantity of quintessence acts as a psionics dampening field.&nbsp; The time-slowing and frigidity could be a cool secondary effect (or primary, depending on your goal).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kid Charlemagne, post: 4527825, member: 93"] I believe that whoever came up with it in the 2E days was probably thinking along those lines; I only just made the connection, probably due to having been re-reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, in which quicksilver (or mercury) figures frequently, including being the name of the first book. I like the connection with the stars - I'm also considering drawing a connection between quintessence and "starlight" from the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, which is harvested by Starlight Mages, and used for some of the same purposes. I wonder if Monte Cook was thinking of quiintessence when he wrote it. It has the same anti-aging effects, plus other effects as well. This is a possibility. Various psionic groups in this campaign have tried to use the distilled essence of nightmares to power certain effects (psionic power in my game is dream-related). Perhaps quintessence is important in that process. In strict 3E terms, a large quantity of quintessence acts as a psionics dampening field. The time-slowing and frigidity could be a cool secondary effect (or primary, depending on your goal). [/QUOTE]

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