Polonium

Overview

Polonium is the eighty-fourth element of the Periodic Table of Elements and the Continuum’s most dangerous Radiant Death-Metal — a violently unstable, ghost-luminous substance born from dying stars and void-tainted stellar collapse.

Its presence is a cosmic warning: Where Polonium exists, something catastrophic has already happened or is about to.

Polonium is not a tool. It’s a threat with a melting point.

Properties

Polonium is infamous for its terrifying traits:

• violently radioactive
• emits “ghostfire” — faint, spectral glow
• heats itself through decay
• ignites aetheric instability
• corrupts psionic fields
• fractures dreamspace around it
• decays explosively in magical environments

If most metals speak, Polonium screams.

Ghostfire

Polonium’s radiation manifests as:

• drifting pale-blue wisps
• flickers like haunting flame
• afterimages that follow movement
• “soulburn” effects in psionic beings

Ghostfire can burn spiritual entities without harming matter.

Metaphysical & Continuum Role

Polonium is aligned with:

• necrotic radiance
• corruption
• decay of worlds
• cataclysmic endings
• void infection
• cursed annihilation
• star death

Continuum classification:

• Magical Class: NEC/VOI – necrotic entropy + void annihilation
• Resonance: 5 – catastrophic; destabilizes local metaphysics
• Psionic Valence: -4 – destroys memory and dream integrity
• Mass State: M/E/T – flickers between material, ethereal, and transcendent decay
• Origin: S/V/X – dying stars, voidspawn cores, extradimensional entropy events

Polonium is the metal of cosmic assassination — used only by the desperate or the damned.

Uses

Mundane

• extremely limited scientific use
• neutron sources
• spacecraft heaters (highly controlled)
• dangerous research only

Continuum / Magical

• ghostfire weapons
• radiant curse-catalysts
• unmaking rituals
• anti-immortal poisons
• void-plague propagation
• entropy engines
• soul-disruption bombs
• star-core sabotage talismans

A Polonium shard can kill a godling with prolonged exposure.

It is illegal in 97 Continuum civilizations.

Polonium Isotopes & Cursed Alchemy

Different isotopes produce unique magical “death signatures”:

• Po-210 — the “Assassin’s Spark” (slow, guaranteed soul-kill)
• Po-212 — the “Starburst” (rapid decay, explosive)
• Po-214 — the “Void-Shard” (dimensional rot)
• Po-218 — the “Ghost Rot” (spirit corrosion)

Alchemists handle it using:

• platinum gloves
• lead/antimony coffers
• void-stilled chambers
• blessing seals

Polonium and Noelaran Biology

For the Noelaran:

• instant collapse of psionic lattice
• emotional blackout
• neural decay within minutes
• dream-death
• spiritual disintegration

Even microtrace exposure can erase ancestral memory threads. Polonium is considered the most profane substance in their cosmology.

Occurrence

Polonium appears in:

• radioactive ores
• void-corrupted meteorites
• relics pulled from star-death zones
• cursed laboratories
• necromantic reactors
• ancient star-core implosion sites
• dimensional wounds

Where Polonium is found, reality itself feels *unwell.*

Cultural Significance

Cultures treat Polonium as:

• taboo
• cursed
• forbidden
• divine punishment
• the breath of dying suns
• the material embodiment of entropy

Elvari necroscribes call it “The Metal of No Return.” Aetherion monks forbid even its name inside sacred halls. Human void-hunters use the phrase “When the Polonium comes out, the story is already over.”

Trivia

• Polonium glows faintly when exposed to strong emotion-fields.
• Ghostfire burns spirit-flesh but leaves metal untouched.
• A single Polonium bead can corrupt a city’s dreamspace.
• Polonium spells often kill their casters.

See also

• Lead
• Bismuth
• Astral Poison
• Void Corruption
• Periodic Matter
• Continuum Classification