Corrupted Gemstone#

📜 Item

An artefact retrieved by hexAgon during the The Battle of Corrupted Desert.

Heavy sphere of matte black color that appears to be completely black most of the time, but occasionally pulsates with deep red color..

During the pulse the matte surface of the cube momentarily becomes completely smooth and transparent as if made of glass, revealing a broken black cube inside it before slowly fading back into its usual color.

It’s cold to the touch when it’s matte black, but too hot to hold it during the pulse.

It looks as if corruption itself is contained within the gemstone, but the true material it’s made of, its origin and potential power of it are unknown, recorded history of Zeithalt does not have any mentions of similar artefacts.

As written by historians:

It’s witnessed by other MindTech Institute members that when hexAgon first touched it, they became completely motionless and unresponsive for several minutes, as if fixed in time. hexAgon does not recollect it being several minutes, but rather just a fraction of a second, during which a sequence of images - a vision - quickly skipped through their mind.

Since then other people have touched the gemstone, but got no visions from it. Also, it seems to be only pulsating in hexAgon's hands - when others hold it, the gemstone stays matte black and cold.

It seems that the gemstone has bonded with hexAgon in some special way.