Adamantine Glass

Adamantine Glass is a form of glass found across Creation, as strong as steel and holding a sharp edge. Its creation involves complex thaumaturgical rituals and trace amounts of true Adamant, and in the current age both methods of production and infrastructure to do so have been lost to Creation. Adamantine Glass was ubiquitous in the First Age, used by urban planners in the design of the high, colourful towers which dominated many cities, and because of this it is not uncommon in the present age despite no longer being produced.

Adamantine Glass could be forged in nearly any shape or colour. In addition to serving as a building material, it was employed for the production of the plates used in the Essence Circuits which form the building blocks of all magitech artifice, and for all manner of tools and artistic creations.

Today, adamantine glass objects are mostly scavenged items from First Age ruins or weapons formed from broken shards of the material. Such weapons are lighter than their steel equivalent, and able to slice through armour with ease. Beautiful multicolored windows can be formed by setting adamantine glass shards into steel, an extravagant luxury used by many Threshold nobles and factors of The Guild to demonstrate their wealth.

The availability and colour of adamantine glass in the present day is largely determined by region:

- In the South, such glass is widespread amongst the wealthy, recovered from the shattered towers of Chiaroscuro the City of Glass , and is predominantly bright red, bright orange, or bright green in colour.

- In the Northeastern Threshold, the city of Yagan beneath the Republic of Halta supplies that state with many glass goods in a rainbow of colours, while the ruined city of Sal-Maneth offers blue-grey glass as well… the supply of glass from both, however, does not come close to matching that of Chiaroscuro.

- On the Blessed Isle, the archaeological site at Kleinen Har, the Vault of Glass (in Juche Prefecture), has been emptied of most treasures but continues to offer up adamantine glass, predominantly dark blue-green and yellow in colour.

- In the West, the Pelagiothorpes and a few islands with access to mutations or essence powers permitting deep dives are able to recover shards of adamantine glass, usually white, blue, or purple in colour, from the shattered domes of underwater ruins deep beneath the surface.

There are other sources of adamantine glass across Creation, though the supply is far less plentiful and far less reliable.