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Chapter 10: Equipment & Magic Nothing brings the light to the eyes of an adventurer more than new magic items, spells and equipment except perhaps the prospect of finding such things after a particularly difficult adventure This chapter is dedicated to detailing and expanding the trove of items and knowledge that player characters and villains alike may have at their fingertips There are new items and weapons here for the aspiring warrior or clever rogue, new spells and domains for the spellcasters of the group and, of course, the alchemical mixtures for the new combat alchemist class Special Materials Many items, from weapons and armor to candelabras, tools and more, can be fashioned from materials beyond ordinary iron or steel Gold and platinum decorations surround the rich and powerful, but this is not the limit of creation Some materials are innately stronger, more mystical or carry with them particularly strange properties Bear in mind, however, that should a piece of armor or a weapon be crafted out of more than one of these special materials, only 174 the material that is most prevalent in its creation will grant its properties to the wearer and the item itself Umbristine: A new special material has been discovered deep in the bowels of Relistan It is believed that only those born of the shadows themselves are capable of forging this rare substance Indeed, the mining of it alone is nigh impossible without the correct tools Umbristine is a strange metal found in areas tied closely to the Plane of Shadow Some alchemists and metalworkers actually believe the metal is the purest energy from that plane leaking through into our existence, and then compressed by the weight of the surrounding earth into its current form The material feels slightly cool to the touch and appears, in its natural form, as veins of pure blackness running through the earth Pulling umbristine from the earth is a process that is part alchemy and part mining If it is done incorrectly the metal can disperse into the air, creating a dark and chill fog Harvesting it at that point becomes impossible Once the metal is mined it must go through a special cold forging process developed by umbral metal smiths A strange silver dust is blended into the metal, grounding it into the Prime