Azoth 8-1000

A tablespoon of creamy cobalt paste in a triple-sealed alchemical electrum container. Azoth is the universal solvent, a substance so potent that it can eat through and dissolve anything except for alchemical electrum. Artisans working with materials as tough as devilbone sometimes use extremely diluted azothic tinctures for etching, engraving, and removal of damaged components. Thankfully, azoth begins to evaporate on contact with air, and its vapors are nowhere near as corrosive as the parent substance — while a spill of unadulterated azoth is an alchemist’s worst and most expensive nightmare, it is not entirely impossible to contain. Azoth will eat through any surface except for alchemical electrum, and is very useful for silently passing through vault doors and similarly forbidding physical barriers. The lengthy process of opening the container and safely spreading the substance makes it more valuable as a tool than a weapon. In the event that a character uses azoth in combat, this author recommends it to have a drastic, but narrative, effect — burning away limbs and inflicting grievous, disabling wounds all while completely ignoring any armor the victim may wear.