Hydrogen [1]: a colourless, odourless dynamic (“powerful”) gas. The simplest and lightest element, hydrogen is highly flammable, and detonates violently on contact with water elementals or other unbound water essence, making refined hydrogen a prized reagent for alchemical grenades built to counter aquatic threats.

Helion [2]: a colourless, odourless, inert hermetic (“incorruptible”) gas. Helion’s boiling and melting points are the lowest of all the elements. Its total inertness makes it the standard medium for storing especially volatile reagents, sealed in helion-filled vessels to prevent premature reaction.

Lithium [3]: a soft, silvery-white dynamic metal. Lithium is the lightest metal, and the least dense solid element. Like all dynamic elements, lithium is highly reactive and flammable, but where its siblings release their power outward, lithium’s own potency turns inward instead. Lithium compounds have long been distilled into calming elixirs, prized by monasteries and battlefield healers alike for their ability to blunt berserker rage and quiet an overwrought mind.

Beryllium [4]: a hard, lightweight, grey erratic (“unpredictable”) metal, present in emeralds and related gemstones, and incorporated into the scales of dragons. Its exceptional stiffness and low density contribute to the remarkable strength-to-weight ratio of draconic armour, while trace quantities impart resistance to abrasion. Beryllium is brittle at room temperature, and is an excellent sound carrier, a property put to use in far-listening horns and resonance wards. Its dust is toxic to inhale, so smiths work it only under careful ventilation.

Boron [5]: a hard, black, cryptic (“obscure”) crystalline solid. Boron, along with beryllium and lithium, are the rarest “basic” elements. Boron is used as a high strength refractory additive to glass and ceramics, and, ground fine and worked into lenses and mirrors, it lends those same glasses an uncanny clarity prized by scryers and diviners, who consider boron-cut glass the truest medium for far-seeing.

Carbon [6]: a catholic (“broad”) element found in various solid forms; from soft, black graphite to hard, clear diamonds… and all the carbon-based life-forms of the world. That same versatility of form makes carbon the traditional base for many forms of golems or homunculi.

Nitrogen [7]: a colourless, odourless, mephitic (“noxious”) gas comprising the greater part of the atmosphere. Nitrogen forms an essential constituent of all living proteins, yet in its elemental form is remarkably inert. When compressed to enormous pressures and released through the weapon bladder of a white dragon, its rapid expansion produces a cryogenic blast capable of freezing flesh and stone alike.

Oxygen [8]: a colourless, odourless, vitriolic (“caustic”) element. Photosynthesis releases oxygen, and respiration consumes oxygen. Most of the mass of living organisms is elemental oxygen. Oxygen’s own reactivity is essential to ordinary combustion, and alchemists who work with concentrated oxygen do so carefully, since it will feed a flame already present far beyond what open air allows.

Fluorine [9]: a highly toxic, extremely reactive yellow salic (“salty”) gas. The lightest salic element, and the most electronegative element. Fluorine is added to ores to lower the melting point for smelting, and its compounds are strong enough to etch glass and metal alike, making refined fluorine acid a specialist’s tool for engraving enchantment runes into surfaces no blade could mark.

Neon [10]: a colourless, odourless, inert hermetic gas. Neon is lighter than air, and gives a distinct, reddish orange glow to lighting effects, making it a common reagent in continual light charms where a warm, steady hue is wanted.

Sodium [11]: a soft, silvery-white, dynamic metal. Sodium is found in salt and lye, and is a major component of green dragon excrement. Sodium creates a yellow flame when burned, and, like all dynamic metals, reacts violently with water, a property alchemists exploit when crafting grenades meant to punish enemies who take refuge in rivers, marshes, or the sea.

Magnesium [12]: a shiny grey erratic metal. Along with sodium and chlorine, dissolved magnesium is abundant in seawater. Magnesium burns with a brilliant white light, and finely shaved magnesium is the standard fuel for signal flares and emergency illumination.

Alumium [13]: a soft, silvery-white, non-magnetic, cryptic metal. Alumium is lightweight and resistant to corrosion. “Magnalium” (magnesium/alumium alloy) is especially prized for its strength and light weight, and thin alumium foil, properly enchanted, is a favored backing for illusionists’ mirrors, its uncanny reflectivity said to hold a cast image longer than glass alone.

Silicon [14]: a grey, crystalline, catholic mineral. A component of many sands and semi-precious stones, and used in mortars, ceramics, glass, etc. Just as carbon underlies every organic, living thing, silicon underlies every inorganic one: the true basis of many golems and stone or crystal beings.

Phosphorus [15]: A mephitic element occurring in white, yellow, red, violet, and black forms. Luminescent upon exposure to air and readily oxidized, certain reduced allotropes ignite spontaneously. Red dragons convert dietary phosphates into pyrophoric phosphorus compounds within their weapon bladders, producing their characteristic breath of living flame.

Sulfur [16]: a yellow crystalline vitriolic mineral, also called brimstone. Sulfur lends strength and insolubility to keratin through sulfur-rich cross-linkages, gives many volcanic gases their characteristic odour, and serves as the principal precursor of sulfuric acid. Black dragons accumulate sulfur from wetlands, hydrothermal deposits, and volcanic sediments, converting it within their weapon bladders into concentrated vitriol.

Chlorine [17]: a pale yellow-green salic gas of extraordinary oxidizing power. Highly poisonous to most organisms, chlorine is generated by green dragons through oxidation of concentrated chloride salts within the weapon bladder and expelled as their characteristic toxic breath.

Argon [18]: a colourless, odourless, inert hermetic gas constituting a small but constant portion of the atmosphere. When electrically excited, argon emits a brilliant violet-blue light and forms a stable plasma. Blue dragons continuously concentrate atmospheric argon within their weapon bladders and, by means of specialized electroplax organs, ionize and expel it as a coherent plasma bolt or “lightning breath.”

Potassium [19]: a soft, silvery dynamic element. Potassium ions are necessary for the function of all living cells. Also known as kalium. Potassium’s violent reaction with water is even more pronounced than sodium’s, burning with a characteristic lilac flame, and its salts are sometimes worked into ship-breaker charges by coastal raiders and naval alchemists.

Calcium [20]: a soft, grey erratic metal. Calcium is essential for living organisms. As a major material used in mineralization of bone, teeth and shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals, and its salts are the foundation of necromantic craft, ground into phylacteries, worked into the frames of bone golems, and drawn upon to knit skeletal constructs into lasting cohesion.

Antium [21]: a silvery white eccentric antic metal. Antium can be alloyed with alumium (plus lithium, magnesium, & titanium) to create ‘Almat’: a strong, lightweight alloy “as strong as titanium, light as aluminium, and hard as ceramic”, making it a favored base metal for armor meant to be worn on long campaigns.

Titanium [22]: a lustrous, silvery grey-white eccentric odic metal. Low in density, high in strength, heat and corrosion resistant, titanium is alloyed with many other metals. In its unalloyed condition, titanium is as strong as some steels, but less dense, prized by smiths for armor that must be both durable and light enough for a mounted soldier or scout.

Vanadium [23]: a medium-hard, ductile, steel-blue eccentric haptic metal. Most vanadium is used as the steel-strengthening alloy, “ferrovanadium” or “Rearden Metal,” valued especially for keeping a fine edge on blades subjected to repeated heavy impact. Vanadium and chromium mark the hottest point of the whole Eccentric decade, melting points that dip sharply at manganese before iron partially recovers, and the run cools steadily onward from there to zinc’s low, soft close.

Chromium [24]: a lustrous, silvery eccentric chromatic metal. Chromium takes a high polish, and resists tarnish. Used in chrome plating, stainless steel, various pigments, etc., and its resistance to tarnish makes it a common finish for ceremonial arms and armor meant to be displayed rather than worn to war.

Manganese [25]: a silvery-grey eccentric esoteric metal. Important in stainless steel and alumium alloys, manganese resembles iron, and is also used as a drying agent in inks, paints, and varnishes. Manganese is essential to life in trace amounts, yet accumulates silently with prolonged exposure, producing a slow neurological decline that smiths and miners alike have historically failed to trace back to its true cause.

Iron [26]: a strong, malleable, magnetic, grey, eccentric stoic metal. Alloyed with < 2.1% carbon to make steel (alloying with additional elements lends the steel other related additional properties). Iron’s natural magnetism makes it the standard material for compasses and other navigational instruments.

Cobalt [27]: a hard, lustrous, silver grey eccentric sthenic metal. Used as a blue pigment in ceramics, glass, and paints, cobalt is named for the kobolds who often use the material for their blue tribal markings. Cobalt alloys are prized where raw physical vigor matters most, retaining their strength under stresses and temperatures that would soften ordinary steel.

Nickel [28]: a warm silvery-white, lustrous, eccentric majestic metal. Used for badges of office, and occasionally coinage, or as corrosion-resistant plating or an alloy metal. Nickel is magnetic at room temperature, and can provoke an allergic reaction.

Copper [29]: a shiny orange eccentric numismatic metal. Used for common base coins, and some simple implements, and alloyed to make bronze and brass. Copper’s excellent conductivity also makes it the standard core material in arcane wiring and enchanted circuitry.

Zinc [30]: a lustrous, bluish white, eccentric frantic metal. Quick to react and quick to melt, zinc is used mainly in corrosion resistant platings, and in alloys like brass and bronze, as well as in white pigments.