Calamity Soil

== Overview ==
Calamity Soil is a substance that can be found in the darker recesses of a Calamity Tree's hollow, usually around 700 feet deep. It has the same consistency as sand, though much darker and a little heavier, but with an inability to coalesce together and remaining pretty scentless. The full depths of its properties are unknown, though there are a lot of interesting qualities to the material.
== Notes ==
* The temperament of vyrms living within a Calamity Tree are easily persuaded by this soil. It serves to pacify vyrms who eat it, as well as any born within the rootspaces where it's spread. As the vyrm queen typically lays her eggs in the lighter rootspaces, this rarely happens naturally. The vyrm queens are attracted to Calamity Soil, though aren't likely to leave the light of the Calamity Tree's higher sections to search for it.
* If the soil faces direct exposure to the skin of a Kaw for an extended period of time (for example sleeping naked on a mound of it), their skin will show signs of twisting and darkening into an unrecognizable mass similar to tree bark. This bark-like material has no connection to the nervous system and thus can't be moved, controlled, or feel pain. It can be severed with some effort, and will grow back exactly to how it was prior to its severance, provided the Kaw is alive. The Lorekeeper buried this information in the vaults of The Library once the news about Katharh Island reached the records.
* Directly ingesting the soil is 100% fatal for regular Kaw, whose body deforms but is never fully transformed into the bark-like substance since they die too quickly. Rather, they become something of a twisted mangled pile of the substance that breaks apart easily, and never gathers any moss or attracts any insects.
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