Pendanti

Pendanti is an ore and metal found mostly in alien dimensions and realms (as well as Aridistanian mines). It is somewhat radioactive, and is harmful to pandimensional beings - it is poisonous when ingested, the raw ore's radiation causes illnesses, and aside from cabbage, it is the only material no pandimensional being can move through.
== Properties and Uses ==
It is fairly heavy and dense, with a fairly high melting point. It does not conduct electricity or carry heat very well. It alloys well with most other metals. While the raw ore is radioactive, the harmful radiation is diffused by the refining process of creating metallic pendanti. Its most notorious property is that pandimensional beings cannot move or phase through it, but it also weakens pandimensional magic.
It is used largely in pandimensional jail cells, due to its anti-pandimensional being properties. As a flake or powder, it is used in poisons. It is used in weaponry, but it is generally too heavy to forge without alloying with or infusing into another lighter metal.
== Dangers ==
Pendanti radiation sickness only occurs in pandimensional beings; other species are seemingly immune to the harmful radiation. The illness generally causes fatigue, lethargy, frailty and inability to use or control pandimensional magic or blessings. 
Other effects vary from patient to patient, but they include: Nausea, vomiting, headaches, hallucination/delusion, dizziness, blindness/temporary loss of vision, loss of hair/teeth, spontaneous bleeding, fever, sloughing of skin, ulcers/rash, sadomasochism, loss of memory, and mutation/corruption.
== Appearance, Variations and Alloys ==
Pendanti is a dark ore struck with pale pink 'veins'. When refined into metal, it turns slightly darker, and the veins fade. Variations are mostly different patterns of veins, as the colours themselves show little variety. 
Variations include whorl (seen above), tiger stripe, lightning bolt, rosette, or 'damned soul' (named for the veins' seemingly forming anguished faces). The only difference in property is that variations with thicker or more pink veins are more radioactive. Pendanti with no pink veins is known as fantinite, but no 'pure vein' rocks - that is to say, pendanti consisting of only the pink part - have been discovered.
It can be alloyed with garazonium to form gardinite, or flammerite to form antimendite. Gardinite is more lightweight, and is used more commonly in weaponry. Antimendite, when burnt, gives off a thick smoke that is highly toxic to pandimensional beings. It is often infused into steel for lighter weaponry (known simply as 'pendasteel'), or into lighter metals (such as copper, nickel, sometimes cobalt, or (rarely) gold or silver) to make bullets, arrowtips and crossbow bolts.
Category:Minerals