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Material
Stackable
A fine grey powder, still warm enough at the center of a scoop to remind you what it came from. Tastes alkaline, clings to fingers, settles into the weave of any cloth you set it near.
Entry
Chronicle
Swept from hearths and kilns across the lower valleys, then traded up the river by children young enough to not yet be angry about it. Gardeners mix it into sour soil to sweeten a beet patch, and dyers use it to set indigo. Alchemists reserve a small portion for work they prefer not to itemize.