While there are many types of magic in the dragonscape, mana itself can be used.
Simply compressing it together for a prolonged period of time will create a material known as manaflint
Mana flint
Mana flint is the most primitive magical material someone can make short of just elementized mana, it is a very important material for the more Neolithic tribes of the pulse reset DragonScape that have not yet figured out how to make VerdaStal metal.
Mana flint is made simply by compressing mana, putting it in a container and compressing it with weight will do the job, you can do this with a log or a rock it’s pretty simple. The result is a material that is not unlike flint in it’s qualities, it can be knapped into flakes and tools, though it is fragile and will sublimate over time in a mana fog, eventually becoming useless.
The important part is that you can make it with elementized mana. When elementized mana flint is broken it is typical for the inside to radiate elemental energy. Fire flint will radiate heat and fire for example, lightning flint will crackle with electric energy, so on, so forth, etc. The outside crust is far less intense than the inside.
Once the inside is exposed it will start sublimating and will dissipate in time.
You can theoretically use any of the five elements, fire lightning ice wind and acid, though due to how hard it is to contain acid and wind mana with stone age tools it’s almost always the former 3.
Uses for elemental mana flint
Fire flint is the most useful and versatile. It is near universal for cold blooded drekir to use pendants of fire mana to keep their cold blood warmed.
Using small beads of fire flint is also sometimes used as a fire starter, breaking the small piece to create a spark and potentially an ember. It beats rubbing sticks together! Though keep the sticks as a backup.
Cooking can be done by breaking a chunk of fire flint and dropping it into water, causing it to boil like stone soup.
Sometimes it’s used for weapon points though lightning flint is preferred for weapons. As starting a forest fire or brush fire from a stray fire dart or sling bullet is suboptimal
Lightning flint is commonly used in warfare as that flint tipped spear can shock either prey or an enemy which is very invaluable. Your weapon is now a taser.
It is also used for lighting, kinda like a lantern, you could use mana though there are no clear containers here that can be easily made by your typical primitive village.
Ice flint Is mostly used to help a drek lower their body temperature. For freezing food its more efficient to just get the village ice shaman/druid/medrake/mage in to freeze it with direct magic.
Acid flint is very rare, as it’s hard to contain acid mana with primitive non verdastal technology. It’s more commonly seen in more advanced societies that understand top of the line verdastal, seeing as those societies are rare I’ll keep it light. Though it’s not impossible and im sure primitive villages could make it, though it’s rare.
Some potential uses are for armor penetration in warfare, melting generally superior armor with a flint tipped spear. It is also used by city states for carving stone to make statues and by primitive tribes to etch into rocks
Wind flint Is not possible for a primitive village to make, wind mana sublimates into a gas and there is no way for a small tribe to contain that and compress it with what materials they have, and there isn’t much of a practical reason to make it as a mage can do anything this flint can do but easier.
Disadvantage of Mana Flint
Namely, it’s fragile and temporary
If you make a tool, it’s gonna start sublimating immediately, that spear tip you just made might only last two weeks. This temporary nature of mana flint keeps it from being dominant, you may be able to make an awesome tazer spear, but in 2 weeks it’s going to of sublimated to become useless.
Regular flint and stone tools don’t do that, and it’s easy enough to find rocks.
Secondly it’s fragile, if you make a fire axe to burn down a tree and whack it too hard, it might break, now it’s not as fragile as glass persay, but if you aren’t careful you might break that tool you just went through a ton of trouble to make.
So most of these tribes keep their day to day tools as what you might expect from a primitive Neolithic society. Stone, wood, bone, and some regional oddities such as dragon teeth, giant insect parts, whatnot.
Mana flint tools are made on an “As needed basis”, if winter is coming you make some fire pendants to help keep folks warm. If the sivilāo might be making a visit you make some lightning tipped javelins and sling bullets to shock them if they attack. A village or tribe may only make these tools when needed, not just willy nilly, since they are powerful though temporary pieces of technology.
All in all
Mana flint is the most primitive magical material short of mana itself and it can help a group get a boon in the situations where they may need a bit of elemental oomf, though if you need serious magic get your local mage in.
Simply compressing it together for a prolonged period of time will create a material known as manaflint
Mana flint
Mana flint is the most primitive magical material someone can make short of just elementized mana, it is a very important material for the more Neolithic tribes of the pulse reset DragonScape that have not yet figured out how to make VerdaStal metal.
Mana flint is made simply by compressing mana, putting it in a container and compressing it with weight will do the job, you can do this with a log or a rock it’s pretty simple. The result is a material that is not unlike flint in it’s qualities, it can be knapped into flakes and tools, though it is fragile and will sublimate over time in a mana fog, eventually becoming useless.
The important part is that you can make it with elementized mana. When elementized mana flint is broken it is typical for the inside to radiate elemental energy. Fire flint will radiate heat and fire for example, lightning flint will crackle with electric energy, so on, so forth, etc. The outside crust is far less intense than the inside.
Once the inside is exposed it will start sublimating and will dissipate in time.
You can theoretically use any of the five elements, fire lightning ice wind and acid, though due to how hard it is to contain acid and wind mana with stone age tools it’s almost always the former 3.
Uses for elemental mana flint
Fire flint is the most useful and versatile. It is near universal for cold blooded drekir to use pendants of fire mana to keep their cold blood warmed.
Using small beads of fire flint is also sometimes used as a fire starter, breaking the small piece to create a spark and potentially an ember. It beats rubbing sticks together! Though keep the sticks as a backup.
Cooking can be done by breaking a chunk of fire flint and dropping it into water, causing it to boil like stone soup.
Sometimes it’s used for weapon points though lightning flint is preferred for weapons. As starting a forest fire or brush fire from a stray fire dart or sling bullet is suboptimal
Lightning flint is commonly used in warfare as that flint tipped spear can shock either prey or an enemy which is very invaluable. Your weapon is now a taser.
It is also used for lighting, kinda like a lantern, you could use mana though there are no clear containers here that can be easily made by your typical primitive village.
Ice flint Is mostly used to help a drek lower their body temperature. For freezing food its more efficient to just get the village ice shaman/druid/medrake/mage in to freeze it with direct magic.
Acid flint is very rare, as it’s hard to contain acid mana with primitive non verdastal technology. It’s more commonly seen in more advanced societies that understand top of the line verdastal, seeing as those societies are rare I’ll keep it light. Though it’s not impossible and im sure primitive villages could make it, though it’s rare.
Some potential uses are for armor penetration in warfare, melting generally superior armor with a flint tipped spear. It is also used by city states for carving stone to make statues and by primitive tribes to etch into rocks
Wind flint Is not possible for a primitive village to make, wind mana sublimates into a gas and there is no way for a small tribe to contain that and compress it with what materials they have, and there isn’t much of a practical reason to make it as a mage can do anything this flint can do but easier.
Disadvantage of Mana Flint
Namely, it’s fragile and temporary
If you make a tool, it’s gonna start sublimating immediately, that spear tip you just made might only last two weeks. This temporary nature of mana flint keeps it from being dominant, you may be able to make an awesome tazer spear, but in 2 weeks it’s going to of sublimated to become useless.
Regular flint and stone tools don’t do that, and it’s easy enough to find rocks.
Secondly it’s fragile, if you make a fire axe to burn down a tree and whack it too hard, it might break, now it’s not as fragile as glass persay, but if you aren’t careful you might break that tool you just went through a ton of trouble to make.
So most of these tribes keep their day to day tools as what you might expect from a primitive Neolithic society. Stone, wood, bone, and some regional oddities such as dragon teeth, giant insect parts, whatnot.
Mana flint tools are made on an “As needed basis”, if winter is coming you make some fire pendants to help keep folks warm. If the sivilāo might be making a visit you make some lightning tipped javelins and sling bullets to shock them if they attack. A village or tribe may only make these tools when needed, not just willy nilly, since they are powerful though temporary pieces of technology.
All in all
Mana flint is the most primitive magical material short of mana itself and it can help a group get a boon in the situations where they may need a bit of elemental oomf, though if you need serious magic get your local mage in.
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