Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-10390252-20130920190245

@ Angren,

TV Tropes.org suggests that it is Phlebotinum, a non-existent element postulated by alchemists as the active ingredient of several physical reactions they couldn't understand. In story-writing terms, it is a naturally-occurring substance that, when treated in the right way, produces effects indistinguishable from magic.

It is possible that it is an allotrope of either Unobtanium or Element Zero.

Visually, Dust appears to be mineral; it generally doesn't look metallic, so it might be basically something derived from silicate or quartic crystals. My gut feeling is that something unusual in the physical make-up of Vytal caused molecular crystals to form that can store huge amounts of energy that can have different effects depending on the exact type of crystal:


 * Stores energy and releases as infrafred-frequency photons (fire Dust;


 * Creates an electrostatic build-up, which is released under certain conditoins (lightning Dust);


 * Creates an energy void, causing a massive local temperature drop (ice Dust);


 * Decouples into water molecules when energy is introduced (water Dust).