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Octiron is a complex compound of mana and mercury that is a highly valuable flux conducting substance. What separates octiron from mana, however, is its ability to store large flux inside of itself like a battery. Its ability to store large amounts of flux is due to the fact that it can couple with flux like a coagulant, changing the density of flux to the density of the octiron. However, octiron exists as a gas at room temperature - by pressurizing it and or bringing it to lower temperatures, it can be changed into its liquid or solid forms, allowing it to store more and more flux. Octiron typically appears a pale purple color, becoming more saturated and darker as it becomes more dense. It will naturally glow a purple color the more flux it stores. Different compounds exist of octiron that can appear and emit different colors.
There are downsides to the usage of octiron, however. Flux stored inside of octiron automatically reverts to a form without identity, meaning it cannot be given psionic qualities — this usage can be valuable however, as it can essentially ‘purify’ flux to its unaltered state. Ocitron also becomes volatile the denser and more solid it is, and the more flux is stored inside of it; intense physical shock and attempting to store more flux inside of it than it can handle can cause it to violently explode, producing dangerous bursts of high cuils like a cuil bomb.
So it turns out, its ability to raise the ECF when in a volatile state is incredibly useful in the production of so-called ‘cuil seeds’. When safely and properly overflowed with flux, the overflowing flux dissipates into cuils due to the oversaturation of flux present in the octiron. When done safely and properly, this property can be taken advantage of, producing a continuous stream of cuils opposed to a dangerous burst, allowing it to raise the ECF of an area over time.
Flux can be both inputted and extracted from an octiron flux battery using octarine.