Books of Crystal Armor and Weapons

These books were given to Malva during one of her journeys that she does every year to discover different cultures and customs. They were a reward for a task that she finished for a half-dragon woman that asked to find her partner, knowing only that he was recently roaming around abandoned local mine.

Malva knew what was his fate but nonetheless headed towards the mine to find his body crushed underneath stones. She took his necklace as a memento and headed towards the half-dragon woman, giving her the necklace and spending a day with her to help soften the loss. Once it was a moment for Malva to depart the half-dragon woman gifted her, her late husband's books regarding crystals and their use in weaponry. She took them and promised to put them to good use, before leaving the grieving woman with a soothing hug.

Books of Crystal Armor and Weapons are treated as very rare sources of extremely precise blacksmithing and jewelcrafting. Many of them were duped and filled with fake information that only lead to many failed projects, heartbroken smiths and jewelers. With this they were mostly tossed into the fire and forgotten by the people while very few tried to sort the true information from the false ones. Unfortunately if one hadn't access to proper tools and natural local source of crystals their endeavors would end very swiftly as it was a costly process.

There are still copies in the world filled with true information but many people forgotten about them, lost them or had the time weather down the pages, making most of the information permanently lost. The books Malva got were mostly sorted out and filled with perfect recipes, yet even here were sometimes not fully filtered ones that lead to mistakes.