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Crafting materials and quest items, by the land that drops them: who drops each one and what it is for.

The Dawnlight Isles 16

Briarling Thorn

A thorn shaken loose from the Moss King's crown. It tries to take root in your pocket.

Dropped byBriarling Common

Gloomwing Dust

Golden wing-dust that drinks the light around it. Lamp-makers want it; wise folk do not.

Dropped byGloomwing Moth Common

Used forMoth Lure

Glowcap Spore

A spore that glows magenta in the dark. Scouts crush them to mark a trail.

Dropped byGlowcap Common

Used forTrail-Lights

Leaf of the Moss Crown

A golden leaf from the Moss King's crown. It is warm, like something still alive.

Dropped byThe Moss King Always

Puffcap Spore

A red spore that glows like an ember. Alchemists grind it into healing draughts.

Dropped byPuffcap Common

Thornling Barb

A barbed leaf that still turns toward the light. It is sharper than it looks.

Dropped byThornling Common

Thornpelt Hide

A wolf hide bristling with briars. Armourers stitch it into cloaks that bite back.

Dropped byThornpelt Wolf Common

Warboar Tusk

A curved tusk ringed with tiny thorns. Smiths set them as spikes on shields.

Dropped byThornback Warboar Common

Lanternport & the Tidewash 13

Corsair Plume

A white flight feather with a red tip. The gulls wear them like a pirate's colours.

Dropped byCorsair Gull Common

Fangwing Membrane

A leathery wing veined with aqua light. Tough enough to make a scout's cloak.

Dropped byFangwing Bat Common

Heart of the Tide

A great pearl that hums with the sound of waves. The Tidequeen wore it over her heart.

Dropped byThe Tidequeen Always

Pearlmaw Shell

A crab shell grown around a whole pearl. It still holds a mouthful of glass-sea water.

Dropped byPearlmaw Crab Common

Reefguard Coral

Coral grown over ancient armour plate. It is still, very slowly, growing.

Dropped byReefguard Golem Common

Tide Stinger Gel

A drop of the Tidequeen's own sea, gone thick and bright.

Dropped byTide Stinger Common

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Bog Toad Sac

A throat sac that keeps glowing swamp-green for days after the toad stops needing it.

Dropped byBog Toad Common

Mire Eel Scale

A scale from something that never was any thicker than the black water it swam.

Dropped byMire Eel Common

The Ember Heights 13

Ember Brand

A brand torn from a sentinel's plate, still hot enough to sear. Handle it with the tongs.

Dropped byForgebound Sentinel Common

Ember Imp Horn

A tiny horn, still warm. Imps are very proud of their horns and very rude about yours.

Dropped byEmber Imp Common

Frostfang Essence

A breath of aurora caught in a bead of ice that never melts.

Dropped byFrostfang Wisp Common

Obsidian Tusk

Black glass ground to a point, still warm from the boar that wore it.

Dropped byObsidian Boar Common

Rimefang Pelt

A pelt so cold it fogs the air around whoever carries it.

Dropped byRimefang Fox Common

Wyrm Heartscale

The scale that lay over the Cinderwyrm's heart. It glows like a coal that will not go out.

Dropped byThe Cinderwyrm Always

Skyspire & the Starlit Reach 17

Astrolabe Dust

Fine brass-and-starlight dust shed from a moth that never stopped charting the sky.

Dropped byAstrolabe Moth Common

Belltower Feather

A feather that still rings faintly, like a struck bell a long way off.

Dropped byBelltower Owl Common

Eclipse Fragment

A shard of the Eclipsed Star, dark at the centre and blazing at the rim.

Dropped byThe Eclipsed Star Always

Eclipse Shade Wisp

A curl of shadow that tries to hide in the corner of your bag.

Dropped byEclipse Shade Common

Halo Dust

A sprite's own light, ground fine. It keeps glowing for days after it settles.

Dropped byHalo Sprite Common

Riftweave

Cloth torn from a rift wraith's robe. You can see stars through it.

Dropped byRift Wraith Common

Starsteel Plate

A plate from a starknight's hollow armour. Light as a feather, hard as a promise.

Dropped byHollow Starknight Common

Voidshard

A splinter of the rift itself, still cold with the space it fell out of.

Dropped byVoidshard Crab Common

The Glasswind Dunes 7

Glass Grub Shell

A soft, still-forming shell from one of the Queen's brood.

Dropped byGlass Grub Common

Shardglass Core

A core of fused sand and glass, still warm from the wind that stacked it.

Dropped byShardglass Golem Common

Sunscar Shell

A shell scarred in the shape of the sun that scorched the basin dry.

Dropped bySunscar Scarab Common

The Farside 23

Aurora Ember

A coal of cold light shed by a wisp that drifted too close to the aurora.

Dropped byAurora Wisp Common

Cinder of the Hollow Sun

A coal from the husk of a sun with its light eaten out from the inside. It still remembers burning.

Dropped byThe Hollow Sun Always

Crownguard Feather

A seraph's feather, still gold, from a post nobody has been relieved of in a very long time.

Dropped byCrownguard Seraph Common

Dark Remnant Ash

What is left after a scrap of the First Dark stops trying to find its way back.

Dropped byDark Remnant Common

Frostmaw Claw

A claw rimed in frost that never melts, even held in a warm hand.

Dropped byFrostmaw Bear Common

Gilded Plate

A statue's own gold, chipped loose the day the Crown's light started running out.

Dropped byGilded Colossus Common

Glassfire Horn

An imp's horn of fused black glass. It is still warm to the touch.

Dropped byGlassfire Imp Common

Leviathan Fang

A fang pulled from the chasm's deepest current. Heavier than it has any right to be.

Dropped byChasm Leviathan Common

Ossuary Bone

A bone from the nave-guard, etched with a rune nobody living can read.

Dropped byOssuary Knight Common

Starblood Droplet

A single bead of starblood, small enough to hold, bright enough to see by.

Dropped byStarblood Droplet Common

Starblood Gel

A jelly of the chasm's own glowing blood-light, thick and faintly pulsing.

Dropped byStarblood Jelly Common

Starbone Shard

A fragment of a whole star-giant's skeleton, raised and bound into one last guardian.

Dropped byStarbone Colossus Common

Sunspot Ash

Ash from a cinder the Hollow Sun spat loose. It is still faintly, furiously warm.

Dropped bySunspot Imp Common

Umbra of the First Dark

A shard of the shape's absence itself. It is cold in a way nothing else in the Sea of Clouds is.

Dropped byThe First Dark Always

Umbral Cloak

A scrap of a stalker's own dark, cut loose. It is colder than the void around it.

Dropped byUmbral Stalker Common

Voidcoil Scale

A scale from something whose coils do not end so much as stop being visible.

Dropped byVoidcoil Serpent Common

The Undersky 20

Bilge Ray Barb

A barb off a bilge ray's wing, still live with a stolen charge.

Dropped byBilge Ray Common

Eyewall Scale

A scale off something that breathed the storm wall itself and never once flew through it.

Dropped byEyewall Drake Common

Hold Mimic Tooth

A fang off a strongbox that learned to bite. Riveters pay well for the hinge underneath it.

Dropped byHold Mimic Common

Hold Sentinel Rivet

A storm-charged rivet from a sentinel that never once left its post.

Dropped byHold Sentinel Common

Rivet Bolt

A bolt the Tyrant's imps shake loose. It hums faintly even alone.

Dropped byRivet Imp Common

Root Warden Bark

Storm-charged bark off a root-shelf warden. It still crackles faintly in the hand.

Dropped byRoot Warden Common

Rootveil Feather

A feather that keeps its storm-blue crest-light long after it falls.

Dropped byRootveil Harpy Common

Squall Ray Barb

A barb off one of Vorathyx's own squall rays, riding the Leviathan's wake.

Dropped bySquall Ray Common

Storm Sprite Wisp

A cupped handful of lightning a storm sprite never let fall.

Dropped byStorm Sprite Common

Stormeye Talon

A talon from something that still sees the whole turning ring of cloud at once.

Dropped byStormeye Harpy Common

Voltaic Barb

A barb off a ray that never did decide what to spend all that lightning on.

Dropped byVoltaic Ray Common

Wreck Knight Rivet

A riveted plate torn off a wreck knight. It hums with a charge that never quite discharges.

Dropped byWreck Knight Common

The Kindled Star 27

Ashmirror Glass

A pane of mirror out of a hungry chest. Your reflection in it looks a little worried.

Dropped byAshmirror Common

Brightmaw's Furnace

The ember that burned in the sun-hound's throat. It is still a furnace, just a small one.

Dropped byBrightmaw Always

Corefire Vent

A spine-vent off a white drake. Something deep inside it is still breathing out.

Dropped byCorefire Drake Common

Flarecrest Mane

A lock of gold flame off a terrace hound. It burns without burning down.

Dropped byFlarecrest Hound Common

Frozen Foam

A crest of the Wave's foam, frozen into lace. It rings like a bell when you tap it.

Dropped byWave Fragment Common

Halfnight Sigil

A scrap of a shadow's armour, stamped with a sentry's mark from a city that is gone.

Dropped byHalfnight Sentry Common

Jar Shard

A curved shard of light-jar glass. It still flashes when it catches the light.

Dropped byJarbreaker Imp Common

Jarhound Lid

The lid a Jarhound wears for a skull. It still snaps shut when you are not looking.

Dropped byJarhound Common

Kindling Spark

A flake of the rekindled Star, violet at the core and still warm in the hand.

Dropped byKindling Sprite Common

Ledger Strap

A strap of ledger-leather off a Jar Golem, figures still inked down its length.

Dropped byJar Golem Common

Lightling Wing

One of a lightling's six wings. Hold it at arm's length; it is very bright.

Dropped byCore Lightling Common

Mantle Scale

A pale-gold scale with a slow flame still licking along its rim.

Dropped byMantle Wyrm Common

Meteor Cinder

A cinder off a Fall Vanguard's meteor plate. It is still falling, very slowly, in your hand.

Dropped byFall Vanguard Common

Peeled Shadow

A flat scrap of a guard-shadow, cut clean along one side. It still tries to lie down on walls.

Dropped byVault Shade Common

Ram-Iron

A plate of meteor iron off a Sky-Breaker's skull, dented by the Ninth Gate.

Dropped bySky-Breaker Common

Shade Ink

A vial of a Ledger Shade. Write with it and the words try to collect on you.

Dropped byLedger Shade Common

Silent Plate

Plate made of light, shaped like the Highwatch's own. It makes no sound when struck.

Dropped bySilent Knight Common

Thief's Jar

A cracked jar with a little stolen light still sloshing at the bottom.

Dropped byLight Thief Common

Vent Cinder

A cinder of white fire wrapped in a skin of black vent-glass.

Dropped byVentborn Imp Common

Verge Silk

Web spun half gold and half dark, like the line where the Star's day ends.

Dropped byVerge Stalker Common

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Cascade Membrane

A sheet of ray-wing clear as the falls, a ribbon of stilled water caught inside.

Dropped byCascade Ray Common

Frozen Lance Tip

The glass point of a stilled lance, a warm crack of light down its middle.

Dropped byFrozen Lancer Common

Glassfin

A glass fin with a gold thread of the Wave's light running through its root.

Dropped byGlassfin Serpent Common

Glasswing Quill

A swift's flight feather, still half inside the glass it broke out of.

Dropped byGlasswing Swift Common

Minute Arrow

The arrowhead of a clock-hand serpent. It always points a little past where you are.

Dropped byMinute-Hand Common

Ringwall Barding

A strap of blue Highwatch barding, frayed at the buckle and stiff with frost.

Dropped byRingwall Hound Common

Sentry Escapement

The escapement wheel out of a Gear Sentry. It ticks once a day, and today it already has.

Dropped byGear Sentry Common

Stormkeel Plate

A plank of a wrecked ship's keel, scorched by the lightning that wore it.

Dropped byStormkeel Ray Common

Wasp Mainspring

A Tick Wasp's coiled mainspring, still wound tight. Mind your fingers.

Dropped byTick Wasp Common

Wave Glass

A chip of the frozen Wave of light that stopped over Vael Orun.

Dropped byShardling Common

Wave Sliver

A needle of the Wave's glass, small enough to lose and sharp enough to regret it.

Dropped byShardlet Common

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Anvil Ember

An ember that never cools, chipped from the Anvil Warden's core. It hums like a struck bell.

Dropped byThe Anvil Warden Always

Astral Serpent Starscale

A scale cold enough to frost an old star-chart solid.

Dropped byAstral Serpent Common

Aurelight Koi

A koi spun from the first ray of the fallen star. It does not blink.

Auroral Minnow

Flashes cyan, then green, then gone. A hiccup of the aurora.

Cinder Imp Ash

A spark Ignarok flicked off one of its own arms, gone cold.

Dropped byCinder Imp Common

Cindercrown Gar

Crowned in molten glass, it is what is left of a falling comet.

Coralbell Seahorse

Rings softly when it surfaces. Starlight pooled in its curled tail.

Crownlight Pike

A pike of braided starlight. It strikes like a falling spear.

Drowned Wight Shroud

A clerk's shroud, still smelling of salt and unpaid debts.

Dropped byDrowned Wight Common

Emberscale Chub

Scales like cooling coals. Starlight that fell hot and stayed warm.

Used forCinder Skewers

Ghostanchor Sturgeon

Old as the first wreck, armoured in star-rust. It remembers every ship.

Gloomwick Wax

Wax from the Gloomwick's own lantern. It still gutters, as if something inside is trying to relight it.

Dropped byThe Gloomwick Always

Glowcoal Eel

A coil of living cinders. Hold it gently, or it holds you back.

Herald's First Ember

The first ember of the falling Star. Hold it to your ear and you can hear the horn.

Dropped byThe Starfall Herald Always

Hollow-Lantern Pike

A hollow pike with a lamp inside. It bites after dark, as ghosts do.

Hullbreaker Bell

A ship's bell fused to the Hullbreaker's hide. It still tolls, very quietly, when the tide turns.

Dropped byThe Hullbreaker Always

Ignarok's Ember

A live ember from the Thousand-Armed Idol's own heart.

Dropped byIgnarok Always

Lantern Carp

Its scales hold a warm light, like windows at dusk. Starlight, settled.

Used forHoneyfin Sunbroth

Lost Wisp

A little flame that wandered off from a jack-o'-lantern. Bring ten to Old Marrow in Dawnhollow to light a lantern.

Moss Sentinel Rune

A warding rune pried from a sentinel's core, still faintly humming.

Dropped byMoss Sentinel Common

Nightveil Mantle

A drifting veil with a heart of white fire. It rises only in the dark.

Used forStarveil Hotpot

Nyxhydra's Scale

A scale off the Tri-Crowned Tide itself, still weeping black seawater.

Dropped byNyxhydra Always

Pearlfin Darter

A darting sliver of glass-sea light with pearl-white fins.

Used forPearlglass Chowder

Pearlglass Leviathan

A ribbon of tide-light longer than a skyship. The Reach sings when it passes.

Reedlight Perch

Striped with green starlight that hides well among the reeds.

Root-Stalker Bark

Bark from a guardian the Labyrinth grew and lost. Still warm with root-sap.

Dropped byRoot Stalker Common

Star Wraith Dust

Dust from a shadow still pacing the Sanctum's closed reading rooms.

Dropped byStar Wraith Common

Star-Eater Shard

A shard of the Sanctum's own echo of the thing eating the Fallen Star.

Dropped byThe Star-Eater Always

Starfall Core

The core the Starfall Warden guarded for three hundred years. It is still faintly warm.

Dropped byThe Starfall Warden Always

Starfall Sovereign

Said to be the last piece of the star that never found a shore.

Sunribbon Ray

Trails ribbons of sunlight and only rises while the sky is bright.

The Auditor's Quill

The Night Auditor's last quill-blade. The nib is still wet, and it still wants to write you off.

Dropped byThe Night Auditor Always

The Collector's Hook

The hook off Hesk's Collector, warm with every light it ever fetched.

Dropped byHesk's Collector Always

The Stillwright's Dial

The clock face from the Stillwright's chest, still one second short of the hour.

Dropped byThe Stillwright Always

Thornmother's Heartwood

The living wood at the heart of every root-queen the Labyrinth ever grew.

Dropped byThornmother Always

Tide Wraith Dust

What is left of a sailor the Tide never let surface.

Dropped byTide Wraith Common

Undersky Skate

Glides under the skyships, wings edged with wreck-wind light.

Used forStarveil Hotpot

Unlit Shard

A sliver of the Unlit, black glass with a gold crack down its middle. Five of them reset your Shards board (the first reset is free). From the weekly Mirror, the Ninth Stand exchange and the raid.

FromThe Ninth BannerVyrmholtThe Mirror

Veilfin Trout

Fins like curtains of light, still shivering from the crown above.

Voidlamp Smelt

A violet speck carrying a lamp of stolen starlight. Harmless, and proud.

Used forStarveil Hotpot

Vorathyx's Scale

A scale off the Storm Leviathan itself, still humming with a charge the Eye never lets go out.

Dropped byVorathyx AlwaysVorathyx Always

Wisp Gudgeon

A bog-wisp that learned to swim. Its tail flickers when it fibs.

Witchmother Barbel

Whiskers of pale fire. The mire says she is a star that chose to stay.

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Comet Dust

Bright dust shed from a comet moth's wings. The Vigil archivists want a whole jar of it.

Dropped byComet Moth Common

Gloam Wick

A wick still smouldering with Gloamtide dark. Mirelle wants these, not the candles themselves.

Highwatch Seal

A gate-sentry's seal, nine points round a star. Nobody has checked these papers in a very long time.

Dropped byHalfnight Sentry Quest

Used forWhose Face

Jar of Stolen Light

Light in a jar, which in Halfnight is money. Somebody up there had a very bright week.

Dropped byLight Thief Quest

Used forHalfnight

Lantern Spark

A cupped spark of trial-light. Carry it gently. The wisps want it back.

Dropped byLantern Wisp Common

Salvage Shard

A splinter of drowned hull, still ringing faintly. The salvage crew wants a full crate of them.

Dropped byBellcrab Common

Starlight Bauble

A frozen bead of fallen starlight. Grandfather Hollin collects these one by one.

Stilled Minute

A brass pin pulled out of a Minute-Hand's heart. It holds one minute that never passed.

Dropped byMinute-Hand Common

Vault Light

A spill of light poured out of a broken vault-jar. Catch it before the bank does.

Dropped byJar Golem Common

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