Cambrinth

Cambrinth is a type of stone that can hold various types of mana energy for a magic caster can use in the application of their spells. Cambrinth stones are typically set into an object of design, and sometimes these designs can be quite intricate; however, it is possible to find large lumps of cambrinth that have not been fashioned into jewelry. The main function for jeweling cambrinth is to provide portability and ease of use.

Cambrinth jewelry, for the most part, takes on the form of rings, earrings, pendants and armbands. Other forms are in existence such as backpacks and pouches, though these are rare. Objects such as figurines also are found with cambrinth in them.

The amount of mana a cambrinth item can hold seems to be directly related to its size and the size of the stone set in it. For example, a cambrinth armband holds more mana than a cambrinth ring, and a cambrinth pendant holds more than a cambrinth armband.

A cambrinth is utilized by harnessing mana and channeling it into the stone, a process known as charging. Once the stone has been fully charged, the caster must then focus on the item in order to form a link to it. If a caster can not form a link with the stone, they will be unable to utilize the mana stored within. Once a cambrinth has been charged with a certain type of mana (ie: life, elemental, holy or lunar) it can only be charged with that type again or it will explode, which can cause serious damage to the caster.

While being a mobile source of energy which can be used in low-mana areas, a magic caster must be able to harness at least a small bit of mana in an area to construct the spell form with. In mana-bare areas, cambrinth will be unable to support your spells. Cambrinth can not power a spell, they only add to the harness for a spell on its casting. For most magic users, this is noted in the form of a snapping sound, though for Bards mana seeps quietly and easily into the song structures.

Description

Cambrinth is a grey-black mineral with reddish highlights.

This is a sort of rusty ashy-silver stuff. If you took silver and mixed it with ashes and them mashed up some rusty-red crayons on the surface so it was all mottled, that's about what cambrinth would look like. You can get it more reddish or more silverish, but those two colors are its "theme", and can't be gotten too far away from. - GM Iocanthe