Coaxium

Coaxium, colloquially called Star Blood by the Thayans, was a highly volatile fluorescent blue liquid fuel source, incredibly powerful and able to release insane amounts of energy. 
== Components and Production ==
Coaxium was produced from two distinct components - Coaxite and Bellicose. 
Coaxite was a solid ore formed under very high pressure underground, of blue-silver shiny nuggets of metal. It could be mined and stored quite safely. 
Bellicose was a liquid metal similar in properties to mercury, found in cavernous oxygen-poor ground sources, like aquifers or caves. It was somewhat unstable if exposed to moisture. This could be seen where a pool of bellicose would often fizzle and crackle in moist air, like boiling oil. 
The two could be refined and combined. One kilogram of Coaxite ore and one kilogram of Bellicose (~100ml) would produce about 10g of Coaxium. It requires a refinery, and was highly explosive. Only Thay tended to have these refineries until the 1500s. 
== Use and Storage ==
It had to be stored in glass vials with metal caps, and these could be connected up to a Skipjammer engine. One glass and metal vial of coaxium contained 10 grams, and was worth about 25gp in Thay. The amount of power this provided was known as a C or Cee. 
It was highly unstable. If a strong electric current was passed through it, such as lightning damage, then it would destabilise rapidly. 
The Xinlelal Construct Foundry powered their constructs with small amounts of coaxium. This was why they exploded when exposed to lightning (see: Jara's WHAM).
Skipjammers were also powered with copious amounts of onboard coaxium, which could be hooked up to their engines. It enabled them to fly and to planeshift.
One cee provided enough power to travel for a long, long time, to escape Toril, or to travel through planespace.
It cost 1 cee to warp to an adjacent plane, but this could be circumvented by finding planar portals.
== Deposits in the World ==
Bellicose could be found in a multitude of underground places, as well as in the surface exposed pools in Netheril. Bellicose was less the limiting factor here.
The majority of the world's Coaxite ore was found in the straits of Gildegra, but large deposits were happened upon in the 1500s by the Verdis peoples of the eponymous mountains in Lakay. The West Marchers swindled them for a lot of it in the late 1510s, but the Verdis caught on years later and started using it to develop their own tech. In their tongue they referred to it as Kavaaksiit. 
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