Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[Zinoph Hizoto]

Hey all, an odd question. A friend of mine runs a game with a magical substance known as crystal wood; large living crystals that grow out of the ground in tree like shapes. Its inherently magical and stores magic easily, in fact the most powerful magic items (i.e. Relics) in his world are made of the stuff. My question is has anybody else run across this concept in another RPG or fantasy series? A movie maybe? I would like to hear where the source might of come from.

Thanks!
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Me: How do you spell writ?
Mike: W, r, i , t.
Me: So there's no "e"?
Mike: Thats right.

[Wendigo1870]

Basically, crystals are are a staple fantasy product to be magically sensitive. Having it behave in a natural way akin to trees isn't that farfetched IMO.
So it doesn't really sound too odd; such a concept could exist in different versions in various settings.
Right now I'm imagining Wraithbone, from the Eldar from 40K. It's a psychic-reactive substance, which gets shaped by the Eldar Bonesingers. But it's partly a living substance too. Whole Eldar craftworlds are shaped out of it.

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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[Ogma]

Somewhat similar is Ghost Rock, that mysterious (and undeniably magical) fuel-source that is at the heart of many a Mad Scientists' creation in The Weird West (see 'Deadlands').