Lyssium

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## General Information

 ### Appearance

 Powdery gold-yellow metalloid

 ### EM-R Symbol

 Ls-19

 ### Origin Element

 Fermium

 ### Physical Properties

 None

 ### Other Names

 Enchanter's Gold

## Elemental Properties

 ### Elemental Category

 Exchange

 ### Classical Aspect

 Exchange

 ### EM-C Effect

 Traps radioconductive effects, binding them onto objects.

## Material Statistics

 ### Forge Tier

 Basic (2)

 ### Chemistry Tier

 Improved (3)

 ### Weight

 1

 ### Material Type

 Powder

 ### Buy Price

 280

 ### Sell Price

 250

Lyssium is a radioconstitutive element with the symbol **Ls** and an EM-R number of 19. It is a goldish-yellow metalloid, often found as a powder, and in uncommon rarities underground where it appears in long snake-like veins.

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By itself, lyssium is unremarkable, and displays no special physical properties. It is extremely sought after due to its ability to trap other radioconductive effects onto otherwise unremarkable non-radioconsitutive matter, allowing the magic practise of enchantment.

Because lyssium seldom appears in high concentrations, artificial distillation of lyssium through alchemy accounts for a large portion of lyssium utilised in Cynedom.

## History

Lyssium was not a well-understood or well-utilised radioconstitutive element in the 23rd century due to how difficult it was at the time to create it. Lyssium is created through either energetic bombardment or radioconstitutive propagation of the element fermium, which was already difficult to obtain in massive quantities to perfect experimentation on. Though the manner in which lyssium could imprint a radioconductive effect onto non-radioconstitutive material was noted and observed, there were no particular uses for moving effects onto mundane matter, and certainly none that could be used by MICHAEL.

### Spellworking

*See also: Enchanting*
The long-term use of highly energetic materials in the construction of the Echo Station resulted in creating minute traces of heavy, atomically unstable elements, such as lyssium. The extreme close proximity to a massive radioconductive core allowed these elements to energise through propagation instead of decaying naturally, leading to an artificial over-abundance of radioconstitutive materials on the station's planet surface.

Because of its relative commonality on Vista, mages and enchanters utilise lyssium's unique effect to practise enchantment. Enchanters use specialised tools called *veinlayers*, short rods similar to wands, to project "veins" of radioconductive energy onto mundane objects in combination with a specialised wand core.

## Effects

Lyssium is physically inert and does not demonstrate any special features. It is not an extremely rare element, but is uncommon enough to prevent its usage in most mundane affairs such as decoration.

Lyssium generates a radioconductive effect upon being given energy. The effect is projected in a linear path in the same direction it receives energy, which does not do anything on its own. However, if the effect interferes with another non-lyssium radioconstitutive element, the effect will then transfer this effect onto the next mundane object it hits. This allows *spellworkers* to create enchantments.

## Production

Lyssium can be created from energetic bombardment or radioconstitutive propagation of the element fermium, but this process is expensive and wasteful, as fermium is hard to obtain and has a very short half-life. Lyssium can be mined from snake-like veins on Vista, as well as produced through the process of alchemy.