Salt

Salt (塩) was a substance found in YGGDRASIL and the New World.

Description
Salt existed in the New World in natural deposits such as salt lakes or mines. Though normally salt was acquired through magic casters who were able to use the 1st Tier Magic and make spices like salt.

In fact supposedly in the New World, the seas did not contain saltwater but freshwater.

Appearance
Salt in its raw form was a rock based mineral. Though when processed it was white powder.

Abilities
Salt had many uses such as being used as a spice for food.

Besides flavoring food, salt was necessary for living beings like humans. Salt was induced in their diet to replenish the amount lost through sweating.

Trivia

 * After catching a fleeing Arche, Shalltear Bloodfallen noted that the crying girl’s tears tasted salty.
 * The recipes for Peperoncino and Hamburger Steak requires salt as an ingredient.
 * According to Ainz Ooal Gown, there were no salt deposits near E-Rantel. When the city was annexed by the Sorcerer Kingdom, many magic casters who produced salt fled the city. Thus salt had to be imported from the Re-Estize Kingdom and Baharuth Empire, leading to the price of salt to increase.
 * Dark elves don’t use salt in their cooking, neither did they use it to dry meat, since magic could be used to preserve it. It was hypothesized that the dark elves received their intake of salt from the blood of animals they hunted.
 * Ainz thought of bringing salt as a gift for the dark elves, but figured that the elves would not know it use, thus decided instead to bring runecraft items.
 * In Mass for the Dead it was confirmed by the protagonist that the seas do not contain salt, after visiting a seaside village. Oddly an isolated island was discovered to have waters containing salt.