Black Touch

Black touch is a dark, sticky, oily liquid which can be found in ponds or pools everywhere in The Crater.

It's sometimes found as crystallized shards on the ground, and as fumes, filling the sky with dark, swirling clouds. Due to this, the sky in The Crater is almost never blue, however the color is known to change according to tempurature and weather.

Black touch is a heavily mutating substance, and the reason for the Hellhounds' existance as a species. Hellhounds generally avoid Black Touch, as contact can cause extreme mutations and health problems, such as tumors, sores, and other maladies- even death.

The effects of Black Touch are not limited to the physical body, but can also influence the mind. Contact with Black Touch has been shown to cause latent panic madness in Hellhounds, manifesting in times of fear and alarm.