Neutral Dust

Neutral Dust
Neutral or "Uncharged" Dust is the state of Dust where the energy of a whole crystal has been drained. Generally regarded as used and worthless by the majority of the population, this is true unless properly refined. The appearance of Neutral Dust is cloudy grey, like unrefined quartz. If not handled properly, uncharged crystals easily shatter into useless shards, dust.

Refined Neutral Dust
Th process of refining neutral dust is temperamental at best, the crystal must be properly drained and handled to prevent breakage before refinement. The crystal are refined by hand using Aura. One of the reasons this process is so unknown is that it requires a monumental degree of Aura control on the crafters' part, too little means the process goes poorly and slowly with longer chance to break, and too much binds it into useless lumps. When the proper level of Aura is exerted on the crafters' hands, the crystals are kneaded and pulled into filaments. The filaments are then ready to be crafted further.

Crafting
As filaments, the refined Neutral Dust can be used as normal filaments would, woven and braided as cloth or cord. The filaments can also be used to "forge" solid objects with more carefully controlled application of Aura. Being said earlier that too much Aura binds the crystals into useless lumps, this is because an over charge of Aura is what's used to set and cure the filaments into a rigid solid structure. Filaments are woven over a frame and dosed with a small Aura pulse, the frame is then removed and the structure subjected to more Aura until fully hardened.

Properties
The refined filaments have a similar appearance to clear white crystals, but when bunch together appear iridescent like pearl. Fully "forged" Neutral Dust has a crystalline glean but can be almost any color. Nearly as strong as steel and only as heavy as cotton, Neutral Dust has an interesting combo.

Pros

 * Flexible, when not fully forged
 * Light weight
 * Immensely hard to break, pierce or tear
 * Can be formed into almost any form and shape
 * Can be mended with additional refined filaments

Cons

 * Despite being strong and lightweight, Neutral Dust doesn't make the best armors or shields as the thinness, low weight, and low inertia means that force is easily transferred across it and is essentially useless against thermal variance and bludgeoning
 * Similarly, Neutral Dust makes for bludgeons or any weight assisted weapons for that matter, this is because that extra weight that gives their strikes power is no longer there
 * Being crystalline, refined Neutral Dust can break, and when it does, it shatters

Special Properties
Above is listed the properties of refined Neutral Dust as a material. Here are the other properties of Refined Neutral dust.
 * Absorption: When struck with a charged/infused object or struck by a Dust discharge, refined Neutral Dust takes on a slight tint of the dust used and becomes better able to block, deflect and dispel discharges. This said, it cannot fully absorb a discharge nor does this affect the force transferred by a strike or discharge. Such instances do not constitute...
 * Charging: Neutral Dust charged with any of the other Dust varieties delivers stronger discharges than any metal would. Additionally, to charge Neutral Dust, it only requires contact with a charged Dust to copy it's charge and it doesn't use up the energy of the charged Dust either. Meaning that only a single sample of a Dust variety is needed to continuously charge an object. This being said, the strength of a charge on Neutral Dust is determined by the duration of contact, the longer the exposure, the more powerful the charge. Additionally, refined Neutral Dust does lose the gained charge, and doesn't run the chance of shattering or becoming useless like unrefined Neutral Dust. The charged object gains a color representative of the amount of exposure to the specific Dust and gradually loses it and the charge as it's used, weither in one massive discharge or multiple smaller ones