User blog comment:Mr.123/Crazy effects needed/@comment-1674153-20160604011926/@comment-1674153-20160604205050

Okay, so in 1934 author Robert Graves wrote "I, Claudius," a fictive biography of the life of the Roman Emporer Claudius. In it, Caligula goes absolutely crazy and famously declares war against Poseidon, ordering his troops to go stab the ocean. This was a highly exaggerated anectode from anicent Roman historian Suetonius' claim that Caligula went to the English Channel with troops simply to collect sea shells, which in all likelihood was a translation error.

After all, Poseidon was a Greek god, and Caligula a Roman emperor.

BUT, I figure that Caligula was just crazy enough to have a spear that could dispel water in order to appear flashy - the man at one point did try and declare himself a god. So, he had the tip constructed from a very reactive substance, some sort of Alkali metal. But the impact that this made was so impressive that it made the spear an artifact that not only dispelled water but completely obliterated it.