Dead Box (Magic Box)

This term refers to a stone box constructed of atharstone, a rock found in many asteroids and a few mountain ranges on some planets. The sides of the dead box are made of solid slabs of the stone, sealed with natural rubber mixed with gorgon's blood.
A properly constructed dead box completely and utterly foils any means (magical or natural) of detecting the presence of any magic, residual dweomer, alignment aura, or heat differential within the box, when such detection is attempted from outside the box. Dead boxes may be of any size (from small rooms to tiny coffers), but all are very heavy-atharstone is heavier and more durable than lead.
To work, a dead box must be “airtight.” It is rumored that the name of the box comes not only from the magically dead properties of such boxes, but from the fate of a wizard or other fool who tried to hide in one to escape detection.
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