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[ChaosPotato]

Add the person below me to Dwarf Fortress... as a material.

[LordBaal]

Lordbaalnite?

A hard mineral made up of poverty, stress and depression?

[Starver]

(I resisted claiming the honour...)

The person below me enters the Dictionary files, the next two below them become mutually opposing Spheres.

[Egan_BW]

All creatures become materials and vice versa.

[muldrake]

All creatures become materials and vice versa.

All creatures are made out of an appropriate material, and all materials are mineable.  So necromancers are made out of necromancy, which you can dig out of a necromancy mine.

[LordBaal]

Actually needing a specific, scare mineral to make magic sounds kind of cool.

[Reelya]

Actually needing a specific, scare mineral to make magic sounds kind of cool.

That can be cool in fiction however in something like DF it would be too constraining. If the stuff was a mineral that you get from digging deep, then how would Elf or Kobold magic work? Elves should have their whole magic based on mixing stuff from the forest, for example.

Well you could say that all magical things have that stuff in them, for example unicorns would have it in their horns and evil biomes would be infused with the stuff. But then it's more like pure backstory and not an actual game mechanic. Might as well be midichlorians at that point.

[LordBaal]

Elf get it from trees that grow in places were the mineral is near the surface.

Kobold steal it from everyone else.

Or maybe different kind of special materials give off different kind of magics.

[Starver]

Well, you often get thinly-disguised (or not disguised at all *cough*) different-elemental-affinity variation between civs of various kinds/sub-kinds.

Sometimes they do it with Humans (or viewer-surrogate humans[1]) as JOAT/unaligned/equipotently-mediocre and then cast 'elementals' to create points of interest/need.

Being Dwarf Fortress, we'd see dwarves as the average. Elves more Earth/Black Bile (or Wood) aligned, Humans more Water/Phlegm (or Earth?), etc. The exact fitting depends upon who you include and therefore which particular mythologies (both elemental and racial) you try to fit to.


[1] Your starship is mostly filled with Central Casting types, but the bridge-crew and handy-secondary-stations-like-Engineering get notable minorities (Earthly, alien, artificial) that represent a hyper-example of one of the four(/five/whatever)-elements, humors or similar. And the Fellowship Of The Ring does it in nine 'elements'
(one example of where they gain their personal powers... Frodo: Heart; Sam: Earth; Gandalf: Light; Legolas: Wood; Gimli: Stone; Aragorn: Fire; (<- or vice-versa? ->) Boromir: Ice; Merry: Wisdom; Pippin: Knowledge   ...but you could argue about these extensively, and do it with most tropey-nines you could conceive.)

[Nordlicht]

unicorns would have it in their horns

Always wondered how a women can give birth to horse, but never thought about the conception.
Guess they really want to make sure to pierce that hymen, eh?

[King Zultan]

Frodo: Heart; Sam: Earth; Gandalf: Light; Legolas: Wood; Gimli: Stone; Aragorn: Fire; (<- or vice-versa? ->) Boromir: Ice; Merry: Wisdom; Pippin: Knowledge

And with their powers combined they can summon Captain Planet?

[Starver]

Frodo: Heart; Sam: Earth; Gandalf: Light; Legolas: Wood; Gimli: Stone; Aragorn: Fire; (<- or vice-versa? ->) Boromir: Ice; Merry: Wisdom; Pippin: Knowledge

And with their powers combined they can summon Captain Planet?

Captain Sauron. Well, his eye-beam, mostly.

"We're the Fellowship,
Of the Ring-Bearer!
Not melting the One Ring, is a grave error.
Hording and marauding is not the way,
Here's what Smeagol/Gollum has to say:"

"THE PRECIOUS IS MIIiiinnn_nnneee!!!..."

[A_Curious_Cat]

Plants give hints as to what lies beneath them.

Unfortunately, they're very vague, they whisper so you can miss what they say unless it's really, really quiet, and you have to be an elf to understand them.

[Nordlicht]

Plants give hints as to what lies beneath them.

Unfortunately, they're very vague, they whisper so you can miss what they say unless it's really, really quiet, and you have to be an elf to understand them.

Stop mocking my suggestion

[Bumber]

Dwarves mock all suggestions that the overseer or mountainhomes give.

"Don't swim so close to the waterfall, Urist! Don't cause a diplomatic incident with the humans, Urist! Blah, blah, blah!"