All I want...(takes a swig from his Beck's)... is for someone to help me come up with a name. Um, it's your typical medieval European fantasy setting, with a slight JRPG flavor (although, what I'm working on is very much a WRPG). I need a name for a substance, a magical element, if you will. Something ending in -ite, or -ium. Meta speaking, it's simply a combination of Phazon (Metroid Prime), Lyrium (Dragon Age), Spice (Dune), and...I guess, the T-Virus (Resident Evil).
In the setting, before there were people or intelligent life, a meteor came crashing down on this typical medieval European fantasy setting. It brought with it, the stuff I need help naming.
Its properties:
*Radiates magic energy.
*Can be lethal to living things in large quantities
*When processed into a salt-like spice and ingested, it can allow certain people to use magic, or simply makes them smarter/psychic
*Its crystalline form embeds itself in creatures, and over time, corrupts them into entities called "Anathaema" (undead/demons)
*It tends to internalize simple microbes. over time, the microbes become brain cells, and the material (in large veins) becomes sentient
**Some cultures in the setting worship sentient veins as gods
*Dragons produce the stuff naturally, but most don't know this
*as a spice, it can be addictive
*It is responsible for the evolution of intelligent life in the setting (although, not responsible for the existence of humans...) by uplifting a bunch of harpy-like creatures into godlike beings.
If anyone can help me come up with a name for the stuff, please let me know?