>>6111494Not fading.
so the Blackstone - somehow - holds the essence of the Other, potential itself, and the world is not muting it. Icarus has a little bound and hidden away whiff of the stuff that dreams are made off.
It's been theorised, of course. There are supposed to be containment vessels, wards, rituals, incantations, prayers. But the issue has always been - will always be - that Potential must and can only imply coming certainity. After all, it's so trite as to be idiomatic: Potential unspent is potential wasted.
It will always fade quick, becoming whatever it was going to be, nudged along, frayed away by a world that is far too rigid for such free-floating flecks of nothing-and-everything. Fireglass is so valuable because of a variety of modern chemical engineering allows its use as a catalyst, accelerant, binding agent. The bound possibility is released into some refined work. Wrackcrystal is so enormously lethal because simply being near it will wrap you in the tapped and cracked something-else, bending you out of shape. Your very thoughts and sapience reverberating with the stuff to cause it to spiral out of control.
That's not happening here, because in the Blackstone, it seems it's not inunduated with the world. Or with Icarus' thoughts. Or Joves destiny.
Could probably power anything. In a sense, it is anything. Could probably sell it for a pretty coin to an alchemist.
Could siphon it out slow and you've got a multiplier for any invocation you care to attempt, because instead of drawing on the latent possibility of the world and hoping the Other draws close and you can force some slight deviation in path of things, well, you could just. . . Add your own Potential.
There is one other snippet of information, from some book or another that Phridon has read, though he can't recall quite where.
There's an (unconfirmed) theory that a Vanadian research group found a way to bind potential into people, to nudge past them the Threshold. Which would obviously destroy anyone; the mind unbound is friend to none. Theoretically though, if you could do that, and keep the subject alive, you'd have the prospect to make them . . . anything.
>>6111496Don't worry. They'll have something else to complain about soon.
