[Magic/Thaumatology] Magic Materials

[ajardoor]

Okay, I'm thinking of having a raw mana/magical material for each general college - the material can be used to both provide energy for casting spells of that material's college, and reduce cost and/or time for enchantments of that college's spells. Enchantment college doesn't get a material of its own, of course.

Here's what I got so far;

Azoth for Healing
Bezoar for Animal
Water of Life for Water
Admantine for Making and Breaking
Quintessence for Meta
Orichalcum for Earth
Mithril for Protection and Warning
Ambrosia for Food

Any other ideas?

[Phantasm]

Apples of Idunn for Body Control
Apples of the Hesperides for either Communications and Empathy, or Mind Control (possibly both)
Pomegranate Seeds for Necromancy (the "food of the dead")

hmm... not sure what else....

[sir_pudding]

Unobtainium for Technology

[Pomphis]

Upsidaisium for Movement
Octiron for Meta

[malloyd]

Other fictional materials I've used for something include alicorn (unicorn horn), alkahest (universal solvent), elan vital, eitr, phlogiston, red mercury, and soma.

Cavorite, mithril, thiomtimoline and vril are modern ones that many gamers will recognize.

Hen's teeth, fern seed, and crystalized moonbeams are fairly traditional materials that don't exist.

Any number of real minerals, plants or animal parts have had amazing properties attributed to them. Exotic blood, and it's ritual analogs like wine or sacred spring or well waters, is fairly frequent. So are animal stones (bladder or otherwise, cf Carbuncles). Fossils, especially if hard to identify, have a long history - e.g. tongue stones (fossilized shark teeth), and sand dollars still have a quasi-magical character for kids at the beach.

[Phantasm]

Guys, let's not forget the ever-classic Eye Of Newt. XD