Most irons tumble as they fall and come down as shapeless lumps. A rare few fly straight, nose-first, like a heat shield, and Corvid Fall is one of those. The result is an 'oriented' individual: a shield-shaped mass with a domed leading face, a swept back edge, and a surface covered in regmaglypts — the thumbprint hollows scooped out by superheated air. It is a snapshot of atmospheric entry, frozen in metal.
We sell these as whole individuals rather than slicing them, because the shape is the specimen. The fusion crust has weathered to a deep brown-black, the regmaglypts are crisp, and the leading face still shows faint radial flow lines. These are heavier than they look and reward a stand that lets you see the domed nose.
A 9.1: not the rarest iron chemically, but oriented individuals of this quality are genuinely scarce, and no photograph does the three-dimensional form justice. This is the specimen people end up holding for far longer than they meant to.
