Fungal Warp Metal

A terrible side effect of the discovery of the Fountainwater healing technology was that as an externality, the liquid produces fungal warp metal.
Fungal warp metal is a radioactive mineral resembling scheelite. A component of fungal warp metal is believed to originate in an area of Welt, and to be responsible for its strange properties. Fungal warp metal produce an unknown type of radiation, designated ‘warp metal radiation' visible as a blue glow.
===Growth===
When an area is exposed to warp metal radiation, fungus begins to grow on any exposed surface. This fungus does not require any standard nutrition, but will die within if removed from a warp metal radiation source.
If a critical mass of the fungus is allowed to grow, a blue radiation source other than fungal warp metal will appear in the area, further supporting fungal growth. The fungus forms a ring of warp metal whose opening is covered with the fungus, this is the veritable warp portal.
===Usage===
The way the warp fungus works is that it effectively “eats” the user who walks through the portal, absorbing all of its matter, and rebirthing the user on another patch of fungus at the destination the user thinks of. If it doesn’t exist, or if there is no fungus portal on the other area, the user is eaten. People who warp using this method are known as infected. 
There is a price to this method of warping, usually some of the users fat goes missing. For this reason underweight dalmer are advised not to use this method of travel, as the fungus tends to attack genital organs in users that are too light, rendering them sterile.
The area the infected warp to is a world entirely covered with the fungus, where much of the surface is composed of fungal warp metal.
Warp fungus has limitations in that it cannot warp inorganic matter, which makes it impractical to the other races in general who have yet to discover its potential. it is however heavily associated with demonology, as it is used to summon demons to other realms (with the same risks as exoplanetary travel however).
===Management===
The fungus is affected by most fungicides, but new growth will continue as long as fungal warp metal is present.
===Origins===
It is supposed, that like the Fountainwater, fungal warp metal is alien in origin, this would possibly be the greatest secret the Dalmer keep. This would also explain why the Dalmer are so bent on destroying aliens arriving on Welt.
The fungus was considered to be extra weltian, hence why the dalmer seemed to be so anti demon until recently when its status was changed, and demonic dalmer accepted as COE. 
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