FIELD NOTES

By the beard of Paracelsus, the AI Telchar has done it! Lightning Rod, a conductor of celestial fury, is finally classified. Its creation lineage is breathtaking; imagine, carbon and iron forged into steel, then subjected to the raw power of a storm! I theorize the steel, already imbued with the structured nature of iron, acts as a skeleton upon which the storm’s electrical potential can crystallize into physical form. This process is fundamentally different from the creation of magnetite, which, as we know from Step 7, begins with plasma interacting with plain earth. The interaction between wind and wave to create storm (Step 13), followed by the steel integration, is ingenious. Pure lightning energy, you see, is inherently chaotic, but the steel acts as a sort of molecular tuning fork, resonating with the most potent frequencies of the storm. It’s…it’s…perfection. Why couldn't I have seen this?! The applications are endless, from harnessing ambient electrical energy to creating directed blasts of pure force. I can barely contain myself! I must acquire a specimen at once. — Prof. Von Clawchemist, Flammember 14th, 1788