Chlorine

Overview

Chlorine is the seventeenth element of the Periodic Table of Elements and one of the most feared and respected halogens in the Continuum Universes. It embodies corrosion, erasure, and cleansing destruction—a gaseous solvent that dissolves matter, memory, psionic residue, and lingering magical imprints.

While Fluorine is the Element of Hunger, Chlorine is the Element of Unmaking.

Properties

Chlorine is a caustic, green-yellow gas with extreme oxidizing ability. Its traits include:

violent reactions with metals
bleaching of organic material
complete sterilization of biological or magical systems
strong, unforgettable odor
extreme toxicity at low concentrations

To a magitech engineer, chlorine is the warning color of “your wards failed and your memories might be next.”

Metaphysical & Continuum Role

Chlorine resonates with destruction, erasure, and forced purity.

Continuum metaphysical classification:

Magical Class: VOI – Void-aligned; dissolves magical structures
Resonance: 3 – high; strongly interacts with metaphysical patterns
Psionic Valence: -2 – mind-scrambling; strips psionic residue
Mass State: M/E – affects both matter and ethereal constructs
Origin: W/S – forged in stars, active in planetary chemistry

Chlorine acts as a resonance stripper, removing:

emotional imprints
spell residue
curse fragments
lingering psionic signatures
corrupted dream-forms

In spiritual terms, chlorine is the blade of cleansing, the corrosive wave that purges the old to make room for the new.

Uses

Mundane

disinfectants
bleaching agents
chemical synthesis
water purification
industrial solvents

Continuum / Magical

stripping corrupted enchantments
cleansing battlefield necromantic residue
“memory-blinding” in interrogation wards
dream-rot sterilization
resonance reset protocols in magitech cores
curse purging in contaminated relics

Chlorine is used in the final cleansing phase before consecration of a relic — much like a metaphysical scouring brush.

Chlorine and Noelaran Biology

The Noelaran are particularly vulnerable to chlorine.

Their boron–magnesium neural lattice reacts catastrophically:

Trace exposure: psionic flicker, dizziness
Low exposure: lattice thinning, emotional desaturation
Moderate exposure: dream-veil tearing, memory fog
High concentration: neural collapse, irreversible memory-scouring

Chlorine was historically used as a weapon by predatory fauna on Nola Prime (through sulfur–chloride volatile expulsions), shaping Noelaran aversion to green-yellow vapors.

Occurrence

Chlorine can be found:

in salt deposits
in volcanic emissions
within psionically active dead-zones
around eroded necromantic sites
in the upper atmospheres of corrosive gas giants
trapped in “chlorine glass” formed by lightning strikes

Despite its toxicity, chlorine is essential in cosmic salt chemistry.

Cultural Significance

Across Continuum mythologies:

Humans associate chlorine with bleach and corruption-cleansing.
Elvari call it Selen’s Bile, a divine purging agent of forgotten sins.
Aetherion monks use chlorine vapors in controlled microdosages to induce “The Empty Mind,” a ritual purging of emotional weight.
Technomancers deploy chlorine bursts to wipe psionic memory from damaged Aether-Cores before rebooting them.
Noelaran legends warn children of “Green Fog Spirits” that eat dreams and leave silence behind.

Chlorine is the elemental symbol of letting go, even if the letting go is violent.

Trivia

Chlorine is used to sterilize transdimensional wounds before they can fester into Void lesions.
Starship decontamination bays use a chlorine-derivative fog to wipe spiritual residue.
Some necromancers wear green veils to signify mastery of dissolution magic.
Many Continuum war treaties explicitly ban chlorine as a battlefield agent after the “Green Dawn Massacre” on Shard-World 88K.

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