I know I was supposed to post yesterday, but I got caught up in work and doing some other stuff, so I thought I’d make this extra special; one of the 25 secrets that I’ve kept from everyone about the world of Bolfodier.
White shadothyst is the rarest of all substances in Bolfodier and is worth ten times its weight in gold. It is so precious that it is believed that every bit in the world has been mined. But what makes white shadothyst so valuable is not its rarity, but the properties it possesses. When combined with the steel of weapons it imbues the steel with invincibility. Warding carved into it will create the strongest barrier imaginable. And when crushed, it becomes white sorcerer’s sand; a reusable substance to help in performing powerful magical rituals.
Shadowthyst (mostly occuring in black, its white form being the more sought after though) is a material that I invented that is a sort of cross between marble and obsidian. It appears only a few times in the book but is definitely a material I’d like to explore further in future works, so familiarize yourselves with its properties and look for it to play a more significant role in future Bolfodier novels.
