Aurum

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Artwork by -name- Aurum Rarity: Rare Color: Yellow Value: Precious Note: This mineral can be obtained mechanically during travels and mining.

Aurum (Common: Gold) is an incandescent yellow metal naturally found in ore veins underground. It is one of the most valuable metals in the world, due to both its luster and distinct yellow hue, and its anti-Undead properties.

Obtainment

Aurum is found in ore veins across the world, and separated from the rock.

Uses

Aurum is frequently used in jewelry due to its rarity, luster, and softness compared to other metals. It is also commonly used in coinage, with Minas typically being smelted from aurum.

Anti-Undead Properties

While aurum is impractical as a weapon due to how soft it is, causing them to bend or dull extremely fast, it is popularly used as an anti-Undead weapon. The bodies of undead react with aurum like few other metal, and they can be gravely wounded if they touch pure aurum. The exact mechanics of why they react

Processing

Aurum is smelted down like most other metals, however the melting point of gold is much lower than that of iron.

Full Lore

Aurum, more commonly known as gold, is a moderately rare mineral found in ore veins all across the world. It holds no immediately obvious special use for it is incredibly brittle and makes for very poor armour and weaponry based on durability alone. Gold is mostly used as a decorative ore more than anything else due to its rarity and naturally gleaming beauty, but that said it remains significantly stronger than Arcarum and use may be made of it in combat, but Iron (Ferrum) will always be the most useful resource in this field. Gold however does hold some interesting properties. For reasons unknown gold acts as a preventative against beings of a spectral nature, and the use from this can be employed in a variety of ways. The most obvious would be to forge swords out of gold as they would cause significant damage to spectrals entities while an Iron sword would do very little - it is as if gold acts as an anchor to physicality, and using it against spectral entities like ghosts, gravens, wraiths, harbingers and wights, forces a rapid demanifestation. Often across the world do the descendants lay down gold plates along the ground, as it prevents spectral entities from passing over them. Even if the spectral creature is able to hover over the barrier still they would find themselves unable to pass - the gold shatters their manifestation to the plane, and a forced attempt to breach the gold barrier would cause instant demanifestation, also known as death.