(Pictured: a sword Cursebreaker)

Aurichalcum is a rare metal with anti-magic properties. As it's a flimsy and expensive material, it's almost always used in electoplating when used in any sort of item larger than jewelry. Though the material can be found throughout the planet, it's most common on the continent of Sanctuary. Cursebreakers are a special type of weapon electroplated with Aurichalcum that can be used to counter magic.

Though Aurichalcum is well known as a decorative material, similar to gold, but with a white coloration, few people know of its actual properties. There are superstitions in Sanctuary dating back to early civilizations that Aurichalcum can ward off practically all manner of supernatural creature, though the belief is rarely held by ordinary citizens, who typically see such stories as nonsensical. In truth, though, it creates a field of energy around it disrupts magic. This allows it actually "cut" physical manifestations of it, like runes, sigils composed of magical energy, or magical attacks. Magical energy that's cut dissipates rapidly. The weapons also slice more easily through magical and supernatural beings, and can even harm incorporeal spirits.

Cursebreakers can be practically any sort of weapon. As long as it's made of metal and can be electroplated, it can be a Cursebreaker. Typically, though, Cursebreakers are melee weapons, as the expensiveness of Aurichalcum tends to make it financially unfeasible to make bullets or arrows of the material. Blunt weapons are rarely used in combination with it because of Aurichalcum's ability to "cut" magic, though they retain the ability to simply ward it off. The part of the weapon that's meant to strike something has to be made of Aurichalchum rather than any other part, where it's effectively useless.

Aurichalcum is occasionally used as a decorative material, typically by people who buy into the superstition that it can word off the supernatural. Outside of display pieces, it also sees some practical use as armor, since its anti-magic properties can disrupt incoming magical attacks, but it's used for this purpose far less often than as a weapon.