Scourgewood

Scourgewood is a unnatural wood that originates in The Scourgewood. It is deadly to touch and parasitic to other plants around it.

Properties

Material Characteristics

Scourgewood takes after whatever wood it infected. It can be hard, soft, fibrous, or many other things. One can tell Scourgewood apart form other woods by its distinct blackening at the edges and its pulsating veins of necrotic energy.

Physical & Chemical Properties

Scourgewood is harmful to touch with bare skin as it burns and eats away at whatever it touches and inhibits healing. If one wishes to hold Scourgewood without harming themselves, they must do so with in-organic materials such as metal.
Scourgewood Shield Properties

• Shields made of Scourgewood deal 2 necrotic damage when used to shove a creature

Scourgewood Weapon Properties -Weapons whose construction is at least 1/3rd Scourgewood gain these properties.

• Weapons made with Scourgewood deal 2 extra Necrotic damage on hit
• A creature damaged in this way can't regain Hit Points until the end of the creatures next turn
-A creature resistant or immune to necrotic damage is not affected by this

Geology & Geography

Scourgewood is found in the far north deep in the heart of The Scourgewood.

Type

Wood

Odor

Musky, Decay

Taste

Rot

Common State

Solid