Ivan Materials

Apr 27, 2008, 1:58 am
#1
Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Occupation: Big Daddy
Location: Under a pile of my own offspring
Interests: Caves
Posts: 612
Post info here you find about the origins of IVAN materials

e.g. Most everyone knows Mithril is Elven metal from JRR Tolkein's books.

Octiron is described in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Octiron

Arcanite is and actual real mineral (Potassium Sulphate) http://webmineral.com/data/Arcanite.shtml

Adamant history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant
Apr 27, 2008, 2:20 am
#2
Joined: Dec 3, 2007
Occupation: Chaos Weaver
Location: Standing between all life and death
Posts: 2,888
Wow, arcanite is a real substance? Never knew that.

Thanks for the links Slob
Uchuudonge wrote
creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos
Apr 27, 2008, 2:38 am
#3
Ex-Tyrant of the IVANers


Joined: Dec 8, 2007
Occupation: Junior Scientist
Location: Not California
Interests: Physics and Astronomy, Exoplanets, Singing praise to Valpurus while smashing skulls with a bloody warhammer, Jogging
Posts: 2,920
That arcanite is hardly comparable to IVAN arcanite though. It's not even metallic.

That said! for slob.
"Put more stuff in the... thing where... more stuff goes in."
Jump to