Fang of Calamity containment log 1.
Log 1: Dr. Selme, a researcher from the Empire, and I have been studying the Fang of Calamity using spectrometers. It required us to take the lab to it since the blade will not lend even a single piece of itself to us. We followed all safety precautions when running tests.
We found, primarily that it was composed of Elbar steel. Elbar steel was a metal alloy created by ancient Elves before they were turned mortal. It’s light, strong, and magically conductive. The carbon is provided by the Elbar trees that ancient elves so revered.Those trees though no longer exist.
We also found trace amounts of other minerals, ones we couldn’t identify at first until we did an ambient magic field test. We place the sword in a neutral magical field. Like putting it in a bucket of water and with special goggles watch how the sword interacts with the field.
It’s common knowledge that the FoC (Fang of Calamity abbreviated) causes corruption. Corruption is a form of magical rot that can affect numerous things, it’s especially destructive on living things. Can cause psychosis, mania, paranoid delusions, hallucinations, headaches, coughs, acute bronchitis, clogged gills, mange, aches, and eventual mutation of those afflicted. Corruption usually takes the form of a black tarry slime, it can also take the form of a miasma.
We discovered though how the sword causes corruption by twisting magic around it. The ambient magic was pulled in and twisted over and over again, switching from astral to normal to abyssal and back around. Both clockwise and counterclockwise then each of these currents overlapping each other into knots of magic that tighten, tear, and twist some more.
It’s through this that we discovered that the other materials comprising the blade are Astral and Abyssal Stones. These stones can change the nature and flow magic from orderly rigid astral to chaotic flowing abyssal. This also gives us our first insights into how we can potentially destroy the blade.
SInce the blade acts upon twisting magic into a mass of corruption, perhaps by hitting it with a strong form of anti-magic will disrupt the twisting and turn it inert. The Ertika Empire is known for the use of dimythrite beam emitters which neutralizes magical fields.
However these plans fell through pretty hard. We fired two beams at the FoC from opposite sides.What we though would happen and what actually happened were vastly different. Almost as if the blade was sentient of our intents, the beams twisted around the blade before firing them back.
Not only did it cause massive damage to the magical wards that bound it, it also caused numerous casualties from individuals that were struck with this altered beams of anti-magic.
To describe what happened in brief, the sword showed that anti-magic is still magic and that it can be corrupted and by extension corrupt people through it.
Thank the saints that Dr. Selme and I only suffered minor injuries caused by the dimythrite beam emitters getting destroyed. The corrupted soldiers have already been dispatched and the FoC recontained. We’ll take better care from now to avoid rushing to potential solutions to our problems.
-Dr. Kaiz
