A Noble metal traditionally sourced from mines located near the city of Athenë. Following the sinking of Athenë, no sources of the ore are known, and artifacts made from the metal are increasingly rare. Athenite was the preferred metal to cast vessels and idols in dedicated to Athenë, the goddess of wisdom, purity and strategy. The metal has a subtle bronze tint, the surface of which tarnishes lightly to a mottled pattern where the boundaries of metallic crystalize structure interact.
Athenite is most well known as the metal of coinage that originated from the mints at Athenë, and still circulates occasionally around the former reaches of the Atlantic empire into the modern day.
[This is the metal known to us as Palladium]
