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Linuxium

Tied to everything.

Some consider this element insidiously evil, since its complicatedness* does not derive only from its relations with element of Ice**, but also from a ill willed of a rogue Dyemon called Setag. *** Interestingly, Linuxium is specifically mentioned as being used in building certain living beings, like Penguins or Dyemons.****

The element of Linuxium is theorized to have started its existence not as an element*****, but as a collection of 'ripped scraps' of spacetime, or 'scripts'******. The formation of the element itself was not so much a single event as a long-term process, contributed to and built by powerful Elemenstors all across Battal who made use of these 'scripts' by painstakingly nesting them inside of one another until it took on another form altogether.

There are some Elemenstors who swear by Linuxium, claiming it to be 'the most stable Quaternary Element,' but sometimes they have trouble getting their Elemenstaves to boot up at all, and Elemenstors who are more versatile make jokes about them behind their backs.

Notes

* In the P&P RPG, Linuxium is merely defined by saying: "The Complexity Element"

** Its placement on several charts shows it has an elemental relationship to Ice

*** Pure conjecture on the part of the fan community. Setag is mentioned only once, in the prolog to Book 7 titled Role Call in the Timeless Pit where he is specifically mentioned as "Setag, pink dyemon lord and sower of complexity."

**** More speculation. Book 10 makes reference to Penguins and their unique method of procreation in Battal. The interworking of spawn points are cryptically explained in french and contain the words "de l'Inuxium."

***** Book 3 Makes reference to a Quarternary element which was artificially crafted, and of such complexity that its use was reserved for the most arcane of knowledge seekers. Ripped Scraps are referred to here. There is enough information here to assume that the process of crafting the "complexity element" could have taken place as described.

****** A fan fiction "The Grand Elemenstor of Linuxium" first introduces the term "scripts" for "ripped scraps", and ties together all the lore (although documenting sources and lore is not the focus of the story). This story makes mention of his stave which will not "boot" (as he has dubbed the term for striking stave assisted gears)