Material
There are many materials that are unique to Hökaland. Some are minerals, which either has physical differences or magical differences to Earth minerals and others are organic, comign fom flora or fauna.
Minerals
Listing minerals.
Pitch quartz
Pitch quartz is a oddly occuring mineral similar to quarts affected by carbon atoms and the magical lattice. The mineral got its name from its "pitch black" colour (though it is somewhat opaque from 5-10% of angles). It crystalises very similarly to quartz and becomes shiny if polished, however the colour is solid black somewhat reflective surface with no opacity even at a millimetre. An unusual pleochroismic effect makes one side of the mineral to have partial opacity, which itself diminishes at lower or higher angles from 90 degrees, down to >135/<45 degrees where opacity is zero and these angles have opacity similar to.
Facts:
- Fracture: Conchoidal
- Tenacity: Brittle
- Mohs scale: 8 - Lower in impure varieties
- Lustre: Vitreous
- Diaphaneity: Near nil
- Specific gravity: 1.80 (+/- 0.01 to 0.08 in impure varieties)
- Pleochroism: One-sided has partial opacity (varies with angle)