Star Slab
Star Slab is the coloqual name for an artifact from the Mage Wars used to gauge a person's magical potential.
Function
A slab measures magical potential in an individual through an unknown, yet distinct process. Despite having been made in a wide variety of styles and by many enchanters, any two slabs
History
The first slabs were likely struck during the Age of Darkness, as they were already in common use by the early Mage Wars. Nathan Searlin wrote of them in his surviving journals and implied they were already in common use when he arrived at High Tower.
During the Mage Wars, slabs could be found practically everywhere.
The ability to create Star Slabs was lost sometime in the Second Chaotic Period, and while they were common during the Golden Age, by the Second Age, very few examples survived.