Small, obsidian-like crystals born of hot sand and dry air, which amplify magic.
Appeared: c. year 500 (Second Age), by Sylvanus, in the south-eastern desert (Obsidian Desert)
Story
Sylvanus made the south-eastern desert grow them. The first mines opened, and they became very valuable. Glaive Port was the nearest walled city to the new mines and to the Orcs, and it raised an army. Around year 600 the desert orcs gathered the magic crystals of the sands and fused them into a great obelisk in their central war camp: the Final End.
Now
They are mined. The Final End amplifies magic, and no one understands it.
Connections
- Great Crystals: the six great ones
- Final End: a great many fused into one
- Orc War Camps: where the obelisk stands