Ethraksha

Ethraksha is the malachite-coloured liquid that was contained within Origin and brought to Earth during the 1st Calamity.

Physical Properties

 * Concentrated Aura: Ethraksha is Aura that's been concentrated to near-physically-impossible levels. Ethraksha can dissolve into Aura, but this is an incredibly slow process.
 * Cannot be directly controlled through the use of a Magic System.
 * Will violently explode if it makes contact with organic matter: Ethraksha will violently explode with green lightning when it makes contact with something organic. It could take as little as a drop of Ethraksha to create a bolt that could kill a man from a football field away.
 * Life's Dependence on Ethraksha: All Living things survive by intaking Aura and compressing it into super tiny amounts of Ethraksha, and sustaining themselves from the energy from the miniature explosions. The amount of Ethraksha present in a life form needs to be delicately balanced, as all things should be; too much will kill you from Aura Overload, too little will kill you from Aura Deprivation.
 * Ethraksha will not spread across the surface of what is being absorbed. But, it will absorb Aura from it's surroundings if they make contact in the right way (fast/hard enough).

Programming
Ethraksha can  absorb information and/or carry out instructions.  It will completely absorb everything that doesn't explode or die on contact. But, the Ethraksha that absorbed it will use the information it gained to "do".

Ethraksha will completely absorb anything that contains Information which hasn't already exploded or died upon contact. If something gets absorbed then it's gone forever, but Ethraksha will use that Information to "Do".

What Ethraksha classifies as "Information" is very vague and it's meant to be. Matter. Appearance. Shape. Colour. Size. Words, spoken and written. thoughts (and emotions). Organic Matter. If it's definable or measurable, quantifiable, interpretable, or otherwise extant, then Ethraksha can absorb it.

The more of a certain thing a body of Ethraksha has information on, the more it will replicate it.


 * If you dropped some coins into some Ethraksha, it will look like a coin. If you then add some knives, the Ethraksha would either look like a coin-shaped knife, a knife-shaped coin, or anything in-between)

Complexity Issues
Ethraksha fails to consistently take all the Information from "Complex Things" and loses parts of them forever. Such things include: What is absorbed from these two mediums of information seems to be completely random, rarely ever taking all of it.
 * 1) Organic matter
 * 2) Verbal commands

Ethraksha remains 100% consistent with all other forms of information, though.

Stale
ETHRAKSHA GETS WORSE AT ABSORBING INFORMATION THE MORE OF IT'S ALREADY ABSORBED.

Meaning that the more information that's contained in a body of Ethraksha, the less likely it is to explode or absorb things.

This way, we can stop things like: This is what L.U.C.Y achieved with the Bedrock Solution: fill all of the Ethraksha in the air and ground with unintelligible garbage that can't be acted upon, and it becomes less dangerous.
 * Ethraksha absorbing and spreading through the air.
 * People from being absorbed by parts of the ground that are actually just Ethraksha mimicking the ground.

EBOs
Short for "Ethraksha Based Organism", an EBO is:EBOs will have the appearance of whatever has been absorbed by the Ethraksha it's made out of.

Just like anything else made out of Ethraksha, the more one of one thing it contains information on, the more the EBO will reflect that in it's being. If you chuck a bunch of birds into some Ethraksha, you're gonna get a bird made out of Ethraksha.

Due to the nature of Ethraksha, if an EBO absorbs intelligent life it will also become intelligent. Naturally, this doesn't happen often because raw Ethraksha normally ends up absorbing a bunch of plants and shit before something with real brain-power comes along. Even then, it's normally something like a rat or a bird, rarely ever gaining a true sense of self.

Humanoid EBOs that behave, talk, and think exactly like a regular person are an incredible rarity and should be treated as the most exceptional of exceptions, rather than the rule.

Types of EBOs

 * Predaters (Living Weapons): Humanoid EBOs from Era II that mostly contain Programming from their environment, before one unlucky human leads to two, then four, then eight, then-
 * Eidolons: Roughly humanoid EBOs with corrupted, scrambled, or otherwise incomplete Programming.
 * Region Tyrants: Gargantuan, animalistic EBOs that feast on living animals in order to preserve their Ethraksha levels.
 * Arkin: Humans who have had their organic bodies replaced with Ethraksha through the awakening of their L.U.C.Y gene. They have god-level powers and ruled supreme over Arcerra's Third Era.
 * EMF: Ethraksha Modified Flora. Most were created by the Great Kings in order to increase Tsunia's forestry growth, but there are some here and there that were created by pure chance.
 * ???: EBOs that don't fit into any other category, but are too unique among themselves to be labelled together.
 * Coco: The Tsuneo Royal Family's dog is also an EBO but doesn't fall into any those the aforementioned categories.

Interaction with Pallobalt
Pallobalt that contains Ethraksha is called an Ethr Crystal. Just like with Charged Pallobalt and Aura, Ethr Crystals can contain a near-limitless amount of Ethraksha. Ethraksha cannot absorb and destroy Pallobalt. Ethr Crystals don't absorb information at all*.

Trivia

 * A sports hall filled with Flow will only make a drop or so of Life Essence.
 * Arkin program Ethr Crystals from the inside of by sticking a part of their Ethraksha bodies into the crystal and doing it from the inside.