Black Lead

The black lead was a metal created by the Kaj through experimentation which killed his mother, one of the Blessed. He invented a gun which shot a pellet of black lead; this killed Voortya on the Night of the Red Sands and led to battles in which the Kaj also slew Taalhavras and Ahanas. The Kaj told no one the truth of how to make this metal and it died with him. Shara Komayd found a piece of the black lead during City of Stairs, and had it made into a knife with which she slew Kolkan and Jukov, the last two Divinities in Bulikov. Sigrud knew, during City of Miracles, that the black lead could kill the Divinities, and that Shara had the last piece of it in the world. The fate of the rest of the black lead is not known.