Editing Obsidian Shard (section)

==Properties==
* Repository and emitter of [[Chaos Magic]]
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<blockquote>The truth was that Obsidian magic, despite its roots in the ancient Fall and generations of study, remained an imprecise and largely unpredictable craft.  Its power unquestionably emanated from the shards that plunged violently from the sky at the time of the Fall, rending the Earth and transforming its features.  Yet despite the presence of this power in the world for centuries, and the many decades in which the Obsidians had been studying and practicing to understand and harness its seemingly limitless capabilities, the power itself remained a mystery and its effects volatile and mercurial.<ref>[[Blade of the Avatar/Sword of Midras|The Sword of Midras]] page 93</ref></blockquote>

* Emanations from larger Obsidian Shards can negate the [[Blessing of the Oracle]].<ref>https://sotawiki.net/sota/Release_52</ref>
* Distortion of flora and fauna in the immediate vicinity.
<blockquote>Everywhere else into the distance the grass was brown in the cold winter air, but around the Fall were a variety of plants and animals and even what the young man had thought were both plants ''and'' animals weaving and reweaving themselves into strange and wondrous forms, only to shift again into new shapes, both chaotic and ordered at once.<ref>[[Blade of the Avatar/Sword of Midras|The Sword of Midras]] page 15</ref></blockquote>

As confirmed by the recorded experiments:
*[[Ancient_Experimental_Logbook_1]]
*[[Ancient_Experimental_Logbook_2]]
*[[Ancient_Experimental_Logbook_3]]
conducted during Maia 258 PC by Obsidian Sorcerers in [[The Epitaph]] toward the creation of Fomorians by exposing subjects to varying levels of “OE” (Obsidian Exposure), lunar obsidian is a radioactive substance.