[World Lore] Sweetrock

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Description

Plentifully filling the seas of north and east Aevos, Sweetrock was a plentiful mineral found throughout The Bitter Sea characterized by it's unique composition. The stones themselves were often ranging between the size of peppercorns and boulders, although the larger the mineral the rarer they were dredged from the sea. Easily collected from beaches, tidepools, and shallow waters, Sweetrock was a gritty black or gray stone with a hard exterior shell highly resistant to weathering, and retaining an extremely salty taste. When brushed along objects the rock would leave behind a wet, grimey streak from the congealed seawater and seasalt around it's edges, and bore a mild artificial fruit scent. 

 

Named for it, Sweetrock when cracked open revealed a dense crystalline sugar often tough and hard to crack. The sugars within tasted of a pure sugar-syrup, and had a muddy green colour. The chalky and tough crust of the rock itself was harshly salty, even when cleaned of the grime which would annoyingly linger days after extraction from the sea unless cleaned. Sweetrock seemed bountiful in the ocean, drawing no natural predators or feeders who may subsist upon such a concentrated form of energy. Although animals would find it pleasant to taste, none seemed to actively know how to break the rock upon their own; leading to their prolific presence within the seas.

 

Notably, the sugary mineral closest to the core of the rock would seem mildly salty, and would bear a unique flavour akin to caramel.

 

 

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-Sweetrock acts as a mundane sweetener, and is able to balance out acidity well in foods. 

-Sweetrock is not poison or toxin by any means.

-Sweetrock is ST Signed and gathered from the botany plugin. Items made from or with Sweetrock are NOT ST Signed.

 

 

Harvesting

Sweetrock would be found in The Bitter Sea, which covers the north to eastern parts of Aevos. It would be in chunks both small as pebbles and large as boulders, although larger deposits were found further out at sea. Sweetrock was easily gatherable by it's nature of being independent loose rocks, and could just be grabbed and broken open to get to the mineral sugar within. Gathered in beaches, tidepools, or shallow seawaters, Sweetrock was plentiful and undifficult to harvest or find in nature.

 

 

 

Signs/Symbols

 

Fire | Life (x2)

Fire | Rigidity (x2)
Fire | Connection (x1)