Deep Tar

Drawn from the bubbling seeps of congealed star-blood, Deep Tar is a dark, almost pitch black substance. Solid at normal temperatures, it is a soft and waxy material with a rough, folded surface from how it solidifies. When heated up and melted into a liquid, however, Deep Tar becomes far more interesting.   Liquefied Deep Tar takes on the rich darkness of a moonless midnight, its surface smoother than glass and without any reflective sheen. Tiny motes of light sparkle within it like stars that do not twinkle. If a shallow bowl were filled with Deep Tar and one were to walk around it, these points of light would appear to stay fixed in place as if they were unfathomably far away.   The surface of a pool of a pool of Deep Tar is described to be cool, stiff and unyielding to the touch, despite the liquefied tar being hot and runny. If surface tension can be overcome, the surface loses all resistance allowing objects to slip into it with ease. Objects dropped into even shallow pools of Deep Tar submerge fully, and are lost beyondallhopeofrecovery. Many apprentices have been lost in inch deep bowls this way over the centuries.   Deep Tar seeps are most commonly found in the proximity of the tortured rift of Cleft Eyn.