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“[b]Sabj[/b], also called Obsidian or Grandmother’s Tears, is a substance rarer than even gold ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51746301/ ), and valued even more, for its conception and growth seems more than extremely random and poorly understood. Indeed, sabj is a congealed, hardened accumulation that is sometimes hewn from charnel pits. One time out of a hundred thousand - more or less. A gorgeous, sleek, vibrant little black rock that feels somehow warm to the touch, and soothes the mind. Maybe it still contains faint traces of the dead ?

Many times have people tried to recreate the conditions for its creation, and many times have they failed. People call it tears as we suppose that since these discarded bodies weren’t taken by Her, this mineral is how She mourns them, maybe.”

- Albe Ombrelune, Al-Katib al-Awwal