Salt

A singular grain of Salt, if viewed through Magically enhanced Vision, looks like an almost perfect cube of white, yellow or rose color. In large quantities, it forms into chunks with distinct rectangular shapes.

While thin pieces can be polished to be translucent, normally it has a slightly translucent character with distinct smears of where the crystals are better aligned and thus denser.

Most Salt is not used for seasoning but in producing components, machines, or the material required by those machines, most importantly the paper pulp that is sieved and dried into paper used for Scrollscripting-Engines and other similar working contraptions.

Civilization probably would've already collapsed if you'd take away its primary way of food preservation.

In the form of Flux it is used to clean surfaces or aid in penetration when brazing or welding metals to each other.

While there are plenty of opportunities to wrestle Salt from the Sea, only a handfull of harbor towns do participate in the craftsmanship that is Saltmaking.

It has been a specialty of the east coast of the second southern peninsula, especially in the Region around Saltford.

It is mostly harmless if not consumed in unreasonable quantities. Working on the drying flats along the coasts has its own special hazards like "Salt Devils", tiny turbulent winds that pick up only the loose surface-salt. Failing to evade them is like being vigorously rubbed down with thousands of files.

Salt needs to be stored in airtight containers, otherwise it draws water from the air and tries to form solid chunks that are nearly impossible to break again.

For this reason it is usually packaged inside large amphores containing about 25kg that are sealed with beeswax.