The Ebony Box

Found underneath the city in the archives of the college at Magemill, The box is a deep black, it almost seems to take in all light around it, reflecting nothing. The box itself is surprisingly plain, with no embellishments and no design aside from a single latch on the front. A smell of heat and flame emanates from within the box, which only intensifies when you open it. It seems empty at first, but you notice eventually that the bottom of the box is covered with a thin dusting of black powder and nothing else. You scoop out some of the dust but when you look in the box, none has vanished from the box, despite the dust you see in your hand.

The Box empowers Destruction magic when the dust inside is kept within a foot or two of the box and used as a spellcasting focus.