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Salt
A mysterious iridescent crystalline structure that sometimes appears to exhibit electrophorus (electricity-bearing) properties, essential to both Life and the ensoulment of Synthemata. Salt comes from the Lightning Sea, where it is easily harvested when exposed in coastal salination and brine pools before the Sun. The monopoly upon the distribution of Salt and its tithes raised the onerous war treasury with which the barbarian marauders of the rust dunes were subdued.
