Requires salt, which is very rare on Osnome, as a catalyst in its manufacture.

Usually transparent, but substances may be added to make it colored or opaque. When these two metals come in contact, they produce a harnessable form of energy called magnicity.Ī synthetic metal made by Osnomians. Aquelium is a bright green metal derived from the interior ocean, and terrelium is a vermilion metal found only in Atvatabar. Three precious metals found in Earth's interior. They usually keep the antidermis inside suits of armor. Greenish-black gas forms the essence of the Makuta, the main villains of the series. Fender says it is yellow and tastes like chicken. 'Summoning' the creatures around which combat and much of gameplay in Magic revolves is described as 'pulling (them) from the Aether'. Inextricably associated with magic in Magic's shared fictional universe and the use of the word in several Magic cards implies that casting magic involves channeling and manipulating Aether. Īether (previously spelled Æther) is the main type of energy filling the blind eternities in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse, though it can also appear in variable quantities within the planes. In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, Aether is one of the main elements of life and magic in the world. Similar to Administratium and a variation of the joke. It was apparently discovered by the fictional Thomas Kyle, who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery, and it is a parody on bureaucracy of scientific establishments and on descriptions of newly discovered chemical elements. Adamantium is also used in the Games Workshop universe of Warhammer 40000 and the MMORPG Maplestory.įirst referenced in a 1989 issue of The Physics Teacher. Besides Ultron's outer shell and Wolverine's skeleton and claws, Adamantium is associated with a number of other characters and implements including but not limited to, Bullseye's spinal column, certain iterations of Captain America's shield and Lady Deathstrike's skeleton and talons. Other forms of adamantium of varying durability are mentioned in the Marvel Universe, including Secondary Adamantium, Adamantium Beta and Carbonadium. Despite its potential uses in armament and armature, adamantium is rarely used due to high cost and inability to be reshaped. Myron MacLain in trying to recreate his prior discovery, a unique alloy of steel and vibranium. Adamantium is not depicted as a naturally occurring metal but as having been inadvertently invented by fictional American metallurgist Dr. Adamantium's defining quality is its near-indestructibility.

First presented as part of the character Ultron's outer shell, but best known as the substance bonded to the character Wolverine's skeleton and claws. First appears in Marvel's Avengers #66 (July 1969), by writer Roy Thomas and artists Barry Windsor-Smith and Syd Shores. The name is from the word adamant (see above), with suffix -ite for names of minerals.įictional alloy. It is also used for armor in The Elder Scrolls III, and in the game Terraria it is a red ore used to produce armor and other items. Salvatore set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe it is used to make drow weaponry. In World of Warcraft, it is a rare ore used to make weapons and armor of uncommon, rare and epic grade. In Final Fantasy it is used to make armor its source is in another world it can contain great amounts of energy. Modesitt Jr.'s 1996 novel of the same name.Ī metal ore in many fictional universes. The word adamant is the basis for fictional materials such as Adamantium and Adamantite (see below), Adamantle in The Sims, and Adiamante in L. In fiction, Adamant is referred to in the film Forbidden Planet (as 'adamantine steel'), many books (such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Faerie Queene, Gulliver's Travels, His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, Mathilda by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and many games (such as Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy and RuneScape). In myth, Kronos uses an adamantine sickle to castrate his father Uranus in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is bound to rocks 'in adamantine bonds infrangible' in Virgil's Aeneid, columns of solid adamantine protect the gates of Tartarus in Paradise Lost, adamant and adamantine are mentioned eight times to describe the gates of hell, Satan's shield, fallen angel's armor and Satan's chains. Adamant or adamantine (suffix -ine 'of the nature of' or 'made of') occur in many works. The English word is both a noun and an adjective from Latin adamans 'impregnable, diamondlike hardness very firm/resolute position', from Greek adamastos 'untameable' (hence also the word diamond). Adamant has long meant any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance and, formerly, a legendary stone or mineral of impenetrable hardness and many other properties, often identified with diamond or lodestone.

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