Use case: In a sci-fi roguelike, players salvage Voidwrought artifacts; their procedural stats derive from the hex seed and version number, ensuring reproducible yet rare items across saves.

—those who had stayed too long in the darkness and become twisted by the vacuum of the deep. They were husks of gold and shadow, guarding secrets they no longer understood. With a surge of its

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The archive's cataloging light hummed as Mara slid the slab into the reader. The label blinked: Voidwrought 0100dae01e9c6800v131072usnsp. The slab was cool and impossibly thin, veins of darkness threading through it like fossilized night. When the reader parsed the hex, it spat a dozen orphaned memories into Mara's head—someone else's child's laugh, a shoreline she had never seen, a conspiracy of librarians who'd hidden a war. The artifact didn't burn or corrode; it remade what it touched.