Name: Darkfire
What is it: A black corrosive flame.
Where it's found: Flames from the creature humans once called Amaterasu.
What it can do: It devours all it touches and turns it into fuel. This fire eats away at anything until the object and everything attached to it is completely devoured. It consumes solids, liquids, and gases and other energies such as fire but not oxygen or carbon.
Side-effects: It eats away at materials slower than actual fire, and the process of it eating away at living organism does feel like a hot burning sensation. Once the material it devours is gone the black flame goes out.
What it can be mixed with: Nothing, it consumes anything it's mixed with.
What it can be made into: This substance can only be handled by magic or indestructible material, or a container that is constantly regenerating.
Possible uses when altered: If it's contained it can be used like regular fire/flamethrower, but not to heat anything. It's similar to acid.
Weaknesses & Counters, if any: If nothing else is attached to whatever the flame is on it will just devour what it's touching and nothing else - unless the other something is attached. Example; someone's jacket would be eaten entirely but not the person wearing or what's in the pockets. The flames will only grow as high or long as what it's on. A small material will gain a small flame and large material will get a big flame.
Digging up or cutting off the area it's burning before it can fully dissolve it would a good way to save the material.
It takes minutes to eat away small items completely and an hour to eat away large items. It has no affect on indestructible materials.
It's taken centuries to eat away a mass the size of Australia to the size of Texas - therefore the density also matters of whatever it's devouring in terms of time.
Gravitational affects have been shown to suspend the flames and thus snuff them out after a few seconds.
Element Number/Periodic Chart (optional): N/A
History (optional):- Amaterasu Creature:
Amaterasu was once a hunted creature in Asia, just like the mythical dragons that used to roam Earth and retreated to another realm when an arch-mage found safe haven for them. However, once the other realm was found the mythical creatures that retreated there began to do battle for supremacy! Amaterasu claimed a floating island and spewed his flames all over it. The island was the size of Australia and has been reduced by the black flames to the size of Texas. It's flames still to this day have continuously eaten away at this island. The black fire was harvested from time to time when Amaterasu would leave by other beings.