Aethyium

The History of Aethyium

Before the modern day Empires, there existed a race of powerful beings that were in complete harmony with The Symphony. These beings created empires spanning across multiple galaxies, and even multiple dimensions, that were both technologically powerful, advanced and complicated, as well as being harmonious with the Song and the entirety of the Symphony. Because of this, they created a liquid metal of near indestructible composition, that flowed like water, but could be hardened instantly into a weapon blade that was razor shape. The empire of inter-galactic species formed thousands of gallon of Aethyium, and formed it into blades and weapons for their soldiers - the perfect undetectable, and concealed weapon.

But alas, everything must end, for to even start in the first place, there has to have been an end. After millions of years ruling the stars, and millions of years controlling galaxies, and dimensions, the Old Empire fell. The effects were felt throughout the galaxies, but the shadow of them still lingered, like a soul mourning its passing. Abandoned fleets crashed down into planets, space stations were left to crumble, and monuments that they worshiped were left to rot. In the wreckage and one of the few things to survive, were the Aethyium blades.

How does Aethyium work?

No one really, and I mean really, knows how the blades work, or how Aethyium works. Hundreds of knowledgeable scientists, chemists, physicists, and many more have tried to discern the nature of why it works. All anyone knows is what they need to do to make it work, and that is to pass a special kind of Symphonic tune into the metal, which then shapes the liquid into that of the tune. So to make a sword or a dagger you would have to play a complex sound that harmonizes with the metal to then form the correct shape. Like all things in the Symphony, Aethyium has a frequency and a tune, but it is one so complicated and unusual, Harmonisers are still trying to figure out the complete frequency, which is another reason that makes the metal so strange.

It is theorized that Aethyium is a sort of crystalline structure that rearranges itself on the molecular level, to form almost unbreakable bongs between other atoms of Aethyium. In it's normal resting state, it's quite unimpressive - a simple pool of dark, silver metal that is quite dull in fact, and very unresponsive. However, when the right tune is applied to Aethyium it becomes almost living, instantly responsive, and can be shaped into forms only your imagination can conjure.

All of the Aethyium that has been discovered in Arcathia is locked inside the weapon handles that are used to project the metal and form the shape of a blade. The most common hand or container is that of a sword, which was theorized to be the more common weapon for hand to hand combat from the Old Empire. However, many top scientists have tried to open one of these containers, which resulted in no progress and caused the handle to adapt with a defense mechanism. The defense mechanism seemed to resemble Aethyium that had been controlled to form small spikes covering the entire handle.

Where was Aethyium found?

There have been quite a few sightings of Aethyium but the main planet where 95% of all the material was found, was on a planet called: Leanium. There, on a small island surrounded by oceans was a temple found by the explorers of the galaxy, and inside this temple that was both in ruins and yet restored for the vault containing the Aethyium was almost pristine, were the Aethyium blades. Since they were first discovered in 734 A.E. the Aethyium blades and the actual material has never been fully understood simply because the technology to do so doesn't exist and partly because the metal is very complex.

As mentioned earlier, Aethyium was also found scattered across the galaxy and predicted to also be found in other galaxies since the Old Empire was quite expansive. Many speculate that the other sources of the material were ancient battle fields or the resting grounds of old emperors who wished to be lain in solitude. There is no definite pattern about where the metal has been found, for each place is seemingly at random, although it is also predicted that would be more sources of Aethyium in the Unknown Region for the explorers have not yet travelled that far.