Mordite

Mordite or Deathstone is congealed antilife not of our World. It's first seen in Death Masks.

Description
Harry describes it as congealed antilife, "a chip would make nuclear waste look like second had smoke." It is not from our reality, it's from the Outside.

It is sensitive to applied will.

In reaction to a bug placed into the box with it, it vaguely formed an inky cloud that flouted up out of hte box about the size of a baby's head. It had dozens of shadow tendrils that held the scorpion, violet flickers of flame fburned the shell till it crumbled to dust. Thomas Raith said it looks like someone spray-painted a soap bubble and gave it tentacles.

In Turn Coat, it's described as weapons-grade Deathstone that can rip the life force out of everything it touches.

In the Series
In Death Masks, in a Test of Wills, The Archive uses a ball of mordite for the duel between Paolo Ortega and Harry Dresden. To demonstrate what it does, Ivy puts a scorpion into the box with it.

For The Duel: the ball that The Archive has formed has an enchantment to bind the Mordite particles in place. It's sensitive to applied will. The duelists face each other with the Mordite ball between then and will it to their opponent. The duel ends when one is devoured by it. In Turn Coat, Samuel Peabody smashes an ink pot on the floor releasing a Mistfiend laced in Mordite killing and wounding many of those attending Morgan's trial with frightening smoky tendrils that could slice a human in half in a blink. The Senior Council, all of them use applied will to contain it.