Patient initially reports that the stone's liquid has a sweet flavour. Followup reveals a reduction in fever and joint pain. More samples required.— Snippet of a Scholar's Report
When the Rock is Ripe
First discovered by the crew of the
Harani, these stones are found under shallow soil and in groups of three to five. They are white or off-white spheres - unusually perfect spheres to be found in nature - that are made of solid stone. Often they are found after intense rainfalls wash off the thin layer of soil which covers them.
Something the crew found is that after they become wet and exposed to light for long enough, the inside of the stone turns into a liquid and some animals of the
Verdant Archipelago smash the hard outsides and drink the goo. Research of samples returned to
Breharan reveals that the goo has incredible medicinal properties when ingested or applied topically and fights infection and conditions such as
cityskin.
When Patience Fails
The research conducted by scholars was not without error - perhaps tragedy would be a more apt description - and caused deaths among some patients. This was eventually traced to an element of the methodology. The patients that recovered had recieved goo from the sweetstones that were dampened and left until they cracked open while the ones that died were given goo from stones that were dampened but manually broken open before the time was ready. Ripe rocks are medicine, unripe rocks are poison.
Scholars were confused as the reports from the
Harani crew stated that they watched animals breaking open the rocks. The animals must have had a sense of which ones were ripe or only broke open ones that had already begun to crack.
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Orbs of Light
Sweetstones that have been dampened and exposed to light seem to capture some of the light and emit it later when in a dark area. The reason for this is unknown but is yet another mystery contained in the palm-sized rocks.
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