Quinterzscence

Quinterzscence is the refined product of the mainland's natural resource Quinterz. It is highly magical and can be used to power a wide array of things.

Mining The ore is mined beneath the surface. Workers need to be equipped with hefty safety gear, as freshly mined Quinterz can cause sever damage from skin irritations to acidious burns. Even then the radiation exposure from the mines had even deeper, longer drawbacks to the miners' health.

Many workers under the Victorian Kingdom, were not equipped to handle it safely.

Uses
Quinterzscence is commonly used as fuel, most famously known for keeping Kingdom Victoria floating in the air. Pilgrim's Landing is home to the largest Quinterz-Refinery.

Much research was spent on potential other uses of it by Victoria's Alchemists. They found it also had remarkable effects on body and mind. A flagship use of it was in the newly developed "mutagens". Those potions, thanks to the quinterzscence component in them had the ability to strengthen the drinkers body to an unimginable extent. The latest breakthrough in this field of research was the generalization of the mutagens use. Where before different versions had to be concoted based on the receivers body structure, one Henry Esquire made it possible that an almost equal result can be expected from the same mutagen composition but over a variety of receivers.

Enviromental Effects
Almost every geo- and biological quirk of the mainland can be traced back to Quinterz being the source of it. See The Swamplamps.

Many of the native species have evolved to adapt to the constant exposure of background radiation, most notably Tieflings. The horns of Tiefling's are basically conductors to quinterz, keeping the harmful substance out of the person's body.