Wooaahh… Mirabel lets out as she glances at the display. The stall has beautifully displayed different coloured and shaped gemstones, resting on purple velvet. Citrine, verdanite, amethyst, fire quartz, and azulite, all neatly organized into a pentagonal shape. "Don't be shy! I judge not whether you're a mage or a witch. I will leave that judgement to the all mighty God of Law Waltari, ha!” Utu, the hume salesman says as Mirabel’s eyes are locked on the gems. All of them pristine in every detail. Their colours magnificent and all of them are cut like they were the royal gems. 'All magic begins with a Spark, but to truly mold the essence of cosmos, you need magestones. Those are the catalysts aether is channelled through. ‘Purest gems are the strongest and last the longest, and while these stones were cheaper impure ones, they too were worth more than a month’s salary. And as you might already know, each school of magic is best cast through a magestone of a proper quality.' School of Reflection: ‘Magic imbuing light and the fate woven into the stars through gems like Citrine (impure) and Sun Beryl (pure)’; School of Antiquity: ‘Magic unearthing and mending what once was through gems like Verdanite (impure) and Emerald (pure)’; School of Cognizance: ‘Magic manipulating the senses and mind through gems like Amethyst (impure) and Staranite (pure)’; School of Shaping: ‘Magic reshaping and manipulating physical material through gemstones like Fire Quartz and Ruby’; School of Flow: ‘Magic commanding energy and force through gems like Lazulite (impure) and Sapphire (pure)’. Mirabel sighs and shifts her attention to pouches on the far side of the table. ‘While there are some other types of catalysts, the most common of them is quartz. Quartz is a universal catalyst, and it gets most jobs done. Rather poorly might I add but hey, it was something even I could afford. Well, just dust to be more precise.’

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3 thoughts on “Home Cauldron Page 28”

  1. Llywenna

    There’s a lot of amythest around here, you used to be able to just go on the beach and pick buckets of it after a storm knocked it off the cliffs.
    But, as usual, people abused it on a commercial level and now it’s illegal to go ‘amythest picking’ at all, even on your own property.
    The same with fossils, in alot of areas here you can’t put a shovel in the ground without turning some up, but they belongto the gov’t now 🙁
    We still have some nice fossils and pieces of amythest ‘picked’ before the laws changed and one amythest my Grandmother had is as long as your forearm and as big around as your leg.
    It’s a pity they don’t have real magic, we could sure use some right about now.

    1. admin

      Where I live, we have relatively abundant sources of amethysts as well though much more common as they are in our world, they are less so in the continent of Maner 🙂 Fun fact: all impure gems are coloured varieties of quartz! This is true to the real gems such as amethysts or citrine, but also for the ones exclusive to the world of Eana (verdanite, azulite, fire quartz)!

      1. Llywenna

        Magic stones in stories follow completely different rules, that’s why they’re magical 😉

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