Solais Metal

Users: | * Valkyrie Corps.

**Solais Metal** is a type of enchanted metal predominantly utilized by Valkyrie Corps. to craft its weapons and armors set to appear in *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard* series.

## Description & Characteristics

Discovered by witch-blacksmiths of Thapoli sometime after Ragnarök, Solais Metal held an important role in the foundation of Valkyrie Corps.. Ingrid, the coven's founder, forged first five Valkyrie Armors from this metal to help bolster her fellow witches' combat abilities after being inspired by her fateful encounter with a Valkyrie Spirit. The alloy also opened the possibility of replicating wondrous abilities of Claiomh Solais, which eventually realized in form of Valkyrie Blade, a special wand accessory that, once attached onto the user's wand, can transmogrify them both into different weapons as well as channeling the power of Seven Words of Arcturus itself. The technique to process Solais Metal had underwent improvements over the years, with different base materials involved resulted at least 3 different iterations of this magical metal.

Solais Metal's earliest iteration was made by having iron smelted with scales of Great Lindworm and quenched in blessed water to harden it. The technique itself was admittedly based on how Vikings in the past ritualistically created primitive steel through smelting iron with bones of their ancestors and blood of animals and enemies alike, though Ingrid substituted latter materials with magical ones for better, satisfactory results. This in turn, yielded a type of steel which possesses high tensile strength, malleability, magic resistance, and responsive to the feelings of its wielder's heart.

To honor the legendary beast's sacrifice in ensuring Gods of Asgard and Nine Olde Witches' victory in their war against Jötnar however, Ingrid's disciples stopped procuring more scales from its remains after forging first five Valkyrie Armors (Kara Armor, Geirskogul Armor, Skogul Armor, Eir Armor, and Geirdriful Armor) and used bony remains of Blue Eldthur as the substitute. Although the Jötunn's body parts produced a new type of Solais Metal which comparable to Great Lindworm-based iteration that the coven relied on it for a time, Valkyrie Corps. eventually sealed Blue Eldthur's corpse away out of concern over his possible return owing to the fact that Jötnar have been known to fully regenerate even from a surviving limb. Fortunately, around that time, witch-blacksmiths of Valkyrie Corps. have successfully developed the third and final iteration of Solais Metal which closer to the original through the use of scales of Crystaltail Dragons, a species of Nordic Dragons directly descended from Great Lindworm itself.

A peculiar trait Solais Metal shared with Shiny Rod is the ability to respond to the wielder's emotion and feelings, and thus its combat potential is based on the strong feelings in her heart. Indeed, a strong will and unshakable faith are required to effectively wield anything that made of this alloy. The reason of this was due to its smelting technique involved a portion of formula based on Claiomh Solais' very magic. Even so, anything that is made of Solais Metal must undergo periodical maintenance to maintain its effectiveness and prevent corruption, since the alloy is not immune to magical impurities.

### Items Forged from Solais Metal

* Valkyrie Armor
* Valkyrie Blade
* Clock Sword of Jennifer
* Newt's Bionic Hand

## Notes and Trivia

* Solais Metal is partly inspired by Soul Metal, fictional alloy that prominently featured in tokusatsu franchise *GARO*. Like the latter, the alloy serves as the core material for protagonists' weapons and armor as well as responsive to the wearer's strong will.