Wytchstone

Said to have fallen from the sky when a dead star passed over the world.
These shards of green glass are said to hold otherworldly magic power and corruption alike.

Would-be wizards seek out its power to fuel damning Rituals, emulating Magic in a bastardized way. Even the ordinary folk of the world seek to use its powers. Tales are told of farmers burying Wytchstone shards into the ground to produce bountiful harvests, while aristocrats give their wives talismans made from it to produce stronger children.
Those who acquire Wytchstone learn to fear it more so than they harness it. For every wives’ tale of a pregnancy gone well while she wears a Wytchstone charm, there are others which speak of twisted, mutated child-beasts birthing themselves prematurely from their mother’s belly. For every bounteous harvest, there are stories that speak of crops coming to life, enveloping the farmer and his family while poisoning the animals which graze upon the transmuted plants. Tales of healing with Wytchstone are also met with terrifying accounts of death brought upon by ingestion of potions made from it.
Yet, greed is ever the downfall of all men and even the slightest hint of coin and power is enough to drive poor souls into acquiring this corruptive mineral… and vain men to acquire it by any means necessary. Wytchstone shards are fortunately rarely found, but they have highly corruptive Effects. Merely carrying more than one shard about yourself is enough to bring about your complete degeneration into the spawn of chaos. Possession of Wytchstone is evidence enough for witch hunters to have its possessor condemned to a dank cell for the remainder of their mortal life. Carrying Wytchstone produce 'unseeming' results, such as a green mist spurting forth from ones’ breath, cause nightmares for those who sleep nearby or scintillating oddities in the air around the stone.

Item type

Magical

Rarity

Rare