'Part of a Fallingstar Beast's jaw, hard and shining black, fashioned into a weapon. With its sharp point, this colossal weapon can skewer foes.' The Fallingstar Beasts are not native to the Lands Between. They are creatures born of the same lightless dark beyond the stars from which Astel, Naturalborn of the Void, descended. They fall to ground as living meteors, dig themselves down into the earth, and stay there, slow, four-legged, gravity-warped, biting at any living thing that comes close. Their bodies are covered in black plate that is not armour but their actual skin, fused with the ore that brought them down. Their jaws crack stone.

'One of the glintstone sorceries that manipulates gravitational forces. Fires a gravitational projectile that pulls in enemies before finally exploding. Charging increases potency. Said to have originated in the lightless dark far beyond, the same dark that bewitched Azur.' Gravitational sorcery is the cross-cultural thread linking the meteor-races. The Alabaster and Onyx Lords are stone-bodied ancients who came down with one such meteor. The Fallingstar Beasts are still falling. Astel was a planted weapon by the Greater Will to punish the Eternal City. All of them point upward, at something the canon never names, the lightless dark that Azur saw and could not return from. The dark gives gravity, gravity gives power, and any sorcerer who studies long enough finds, like Azur did, that the dark is studying them back.

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WeaponFallingstar Beast Jaw

Part of a Fallingstar Beast's jaw, hard and shining black, fashioned into a weapon. With its sharp point, this colossal weapon can skewer foes.

SorceryGravitational Missile

One of the glintstone sorceries that manipulates gravitational forces. Fires a gravitational projectile that pulls in enemies before finally exploding. Charging increases potency. Said to have originated in the lightless dark far beyond, the same dark that bewitched Azur.