Delerium

Stone of stars

Delerium is a magical mineral left behind by the The Fallen Star. It appears in geode clusters of translucent, sharp-edged crystals which reflect octarine light. The eldritch stones softly hum in dissonant tones and glow brightly at night or when exposed to magic. Deposits are found through Drakkenheim often fused into stone streets and buildings like crystalline moss.

A typical delerium fragment is about the size of a finger. Crystals may be fist-sized or slightly larger and geodes may be as big as a pumpkin. Massive clusters might grow taller than a human. These lambent stones emanate unnatural energies that induce madness and monstrous transformations. Delerium is ideally suited for crafting magic items and fuelling spells.

Delerium Properties

All Delerium samples have the following traits regardless of size:

• Immune to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage; as well as bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.
• Resistance to acid, cold, fire, and lightning damage; as well as slashing and piercing damage from magical weapons.
• Vulnerable to bludgeoning damage from magical weapons.
• Unless contained within an Antimagic field, delerium shatters and crumbles into worthless ash when reduced to zero hit points. However, delerium geodes release a random Arcane Anomaly when destroyed

Delerium Harvesting

Delerium Found In Drakkenheim is usually fused into the ground or stone buildings and may be carefully extracted using handheld mining equipment such as shovels, picks, hammers, and chisels. Lacking proper equipment extraction takes ten times as long. Massive clusters are impossible to extract without heavy equipment or powerful magic.

Size	Market Value	Weight	AC	HP	Extraction Time
Chip	10 GP	1/4 lbs	15	5	1 action
Fragment	100 GP	1/2 lbs	17	10	1 minute
Shard	500 GP	1 lbs	19	15	5 minutes
Crystal	1000	2 lbs	21	20	30 minutes
Geode	5000	20 lbs+	23	25	1 hour
Massive Cluster	?????	8000 lbs+	25	50	7 days

Raw Delerium

Refined Delerium

The essence of delerium is intoxication, like looking upon a raw power. I swear you can feel it draw you in. A lesser man might be drawn to the contamination, Embracing it fully as a gift.

— Sebastian Crowe

Delerium Hazards

When a humanoid creature touches delerium without protective gear (such as gloves or tongs) take necrotic damage and gain Contamination.

Uses for Delerium

Spell Component

Delerium may be used as an arcane focus or material component for any spell on the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list. When casting a spell that requires a costly material component, a spellcaster may instead use a delerium of equivalent value to the required cost.

Magic Items

Delerium Is an exceptional material for creating magical items of all kinds. Several new magic items are described herein, but any existing magic item could be made with delerium. Fragments, shards, crystals, and geodes may be used to make uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary items respectively.

Stable Delerium

The Process for crafting magic items with delerium renders the crystals stable. Unless otherwise specified, characters do not take damage nor risk contamination when they touch or handle stable delerium. Stable Delerium is damaged and destroyed in the same manner.

Delerium Dust

Delerium dust is made by grinding the crystals against one another to create a fine powder. This milling process is extraordinarily hazardous unless performed within an Antimagic field. Delerium dust can be used in alchemy, as a spell component, as a reagent for brewing potions or mixed into inks for Spell Scroll

Improvised Weapons and Ammunition

Delerium fragments may be used as ammunition for a sling or fashioned into a makeshift club. such weapons and ammunition deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage, and a non-Contaminated creatures struck might suffer Contamination

Item type

Raw Material