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Agni Mani: A name given to certain tektites; bits of glass of celestial origin (usually) found in desert regions such as Anauroch. In the Realms, it applies spe-cifically only to black tektite material.

Algae: A type of quartz covered with dark brown wavy patterns, cut in slices or cabochon, and polished to bring forth the pattern.

Augelite: A soft, fragile gem found nat-urally in clear, colorless crystals. It is easily worked without special skill or tools but does not last long in normal use for adorn-ment, and cannot be carved into delicate or intricate shapes without splitting.

Azurite: A slightly rarer form of mala-chite. This is a deep blue stone with opaque mottling in darker shades of blue, and is often smoothed from its irregular natural condition and used to ornament belts and rings.

Banded Agate: This opaque stone is a waxy, smooth form of quartz with stri-ated bands of brown, red, blue, and white stripes. Used as an ornamental stone, banded agate is also crushed and placed into sleeping draughts to insure a long and restful sleep (no modification to saving throws, if any, for such draughts).

Bluestone: A colloquial name for soda-lite, which is rich blue in color and soft and brittle in nature. Sometimes blue-stone has veins of pink, white, cream, and yellow, and can be found in old and weathered rocky environments (such as the Dalering Mountains, the Storm Horns, and the Thunder Peaks). It is usu-ally cut cabochon (polished glassy smooth and curved, without facets) or

tumbled in barrels of gravel and sand;

very rarely it is hard enough to be cut in facets. It is sometimes called “ditroite.”

Blue Quartz: A transparent, pale blue crystal. Blue quartz in single, large crys-tals is sometimes heavily enchanted to produce gems of seeing but this is com-mon only in ancient versions of this magi-cal item.

Chrysocolla: A translucent variety of chalcedony, colored blue-green to green by traces of copper. It is most highly val-ued when of uniform color and free of in-clusions (flaws of other minerals and impurities). Most specimens are tumbled for use as earrings and pendant stones;

some are faceted for the same uses.

Corstal: This is more rarely called peta-lite. This rare mineral is found in crystals ranging from colorless to pink. It is fairly hard, brittle, and commonly has inclu-sions; when free of these impurities it can be faceted, but otherwise is cut cabochon.

Crown of Silver: A colloquial name for psilomelane chalcedony, a variety of chalcendony containing abundant, min-ute plumes of black manganese arranged in bands. These bands polish to a bril-liant, metallic black. Crown of silver is usually sliced and polished for inlays so as to best show the black bands, but can be tumbled or cut cabochon.

Disthene: Also known as kyanite. It is abundant in the Realms, and is easily cleaved, but difficult to cut in facets with-out unintended splitting. It usually has many inclusions. Disthene is found in crystals ranging in color from dark blue to pale green; fine blue facet-grade crystals are the most prized (treat doubled-base-value versions of this stone as this fine blue variety).

Epidote: An abundant gem, cut in ca-bochons or facets. Its smallest crystals are clear, but larger crystals are progressively darker shades of red. A variety (known also as piedmontite) can be cut into large cabochons of a deep rose color.

Eye Agate: A related form of banded agate, but instead of striated bands, the layers within the stone appear as concen-tric circles. These rings are gray, white, brown, grayish blue, and drab green. Like banded agates, these stones are often ground up and placed in sleeping draughts, though their effectiveness in these draughts is unknown.

Fire Agate: The name given to chalced-ony which contains thin lines of iridescent goethite. When properly cut, the irides-cence displays red, brown, gold, and green

hues, and the finest specimens are partly translucent—this allows the best display of color (treat improved variations of this gem as this translucent variety).

Fluorspar (fluorite): A soft, readily cleavable gemstone occurring in many colors. If the rough gemstone is pale blue, green, yellow, purple, or (the rare, more valuable varieties) pink or red, or is phys-ically small, it is usually cut into faceted gems. These are sometimes known as “ca-bra stones.” A massive, purple-and-white banded variety is used for carving (see Hardstones: Archon or “Blue John”).

Frost Agate: Also known as “frost stone.” This is an agate with white mark-ings which resemble frost patterns. It is rare and beautiful, and is usually tumbled and polished glassy smooth. A gemcutter of unusual skill can cut the fragile stone in facets without splitting, so that at each point where facets meet (such as in a polyhedron cut, the shape of a d20), a

“snowflake” of white “frost” appears. En-chanted versions of these stones are often luckstones. Lesser varieties are powdered and treated like other agates for draughts and potions.

Goldline: The name given to quartz with lines of gold-colored goethite (a rus-tlike impurity) imbedded in it, sometimes called cacoxenite. The native quartz stone can be citrine, amethyst, or smoky quartz-the goethite appears as brilliant yellow or gold fibers or tufts that run in parallel lines. Goldline is tumbled or cut cabochon, and usually occurs naturally in pieces 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Some-times larger slabs are found, but these rarely survive travel unbroken.

Greenstone: The common name of chlorastrolite, a gray-green variety of pumpellyite, found in nodules of up to

¾-inch diameter in solidified lava flows.

It is soft and is usually cut cabochon; the finest quality greenstone can be polished to a glassy finish, and such stones are sometimes called chlorastras. Green-stones of exceptional size are made into greenstone amulets, but not all green-stone jewelry is so enchanted, and often a ruse is used involving nonmagical green-stones and Nystul’s magic aura.

Hematite: A shiny gray-black gem of-ten cut in a baguette fashion (rectangular with beveled sides). Hematites are prized by fighters, and often used in magical pe-riapts (both healing and foul rotting).

They are not magical in nature, though they are particularly responsive to these enchantments.

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Lapis Lazuli: An opaque, dark blue stone with gold flecks. Incorrectly called lazurite in the South, lapis lazuli is usually carved cabochon and polished to show off its gold impurities. Crushed lapis la-zuli is used in making potions of heroism and super-heroism.

Hyaline: A milky (or “white”) quartz, it is often used in silver, cut either as plates or cabochon. The milkiness of the stone is caused by tiny droplets of water or car-bon dioxide trapped in the crystals. There are also often grains of gold in hyaline.

Lynx Eye: A specific type of labradorite (a feldspar gemstone). Labradorite as a class of stones is pale to dark gray and has patches of colored reflections. This

“flash” is most commonly blue but can be of all shades. “Green flash” labradorite is called lynx eye in the Realms. Lynx eye is usually cut cabochon and fractures easily, so that most stones are less than an inch in diameter.

Malachite: A green gem with striations of darker green. Malachite is related to the bluer azurite, and usually cut cabo-chon. Malachite is reputed to help pre-vent falls, and as such is often used ornamentally on devices like rings of feather falling.

Moss Agate: Quartz agates with impu-rities of manganese, forming the fernlike patterns that give this stone its name.

Moss agate is pink to yellow-white, with gray-green markings. Moss agate, like other agates, can be displayed as a stone, or can be ground up and used in produc-ing sleepproduc-ing draughts and other potions.

Microcline: A feldspar gemstone usu-ally tumbled or cut cabochon. It is deep green to blue-green, and is sometimes re-ferred to here as “amazonstone.” Micro-cline crystals cleave easily, so that finished stones may split if handled carelessly.

Tiny cleavage cracks reflect light, so that a polished microcline stone shimmers.

Nelvine: Albite, a variety of feldspar. It is soft and fragile, but easily cut with crude tools. It is found in large amounts in older rocks. Nelvine is occasionally called

“pigeon stone” due to its white, cream, fawn, or brownish pink color. It exhibits a beautiful celestial-blue flash of irides-cence, or play of reflected color, known as peristerism.

Nune: The common name for staurolite (sometimes called “cross stone” or “fairy stone”) in the Realms. Nune is translucent brown or nearly clear, and occurs in small (up to 1 inch across either arm) cross-shaped crystals, which are commonly

polished to a smooth sheen and pierced to be worn as pendants or, linked, as brace-lets. In the Realms, the cross is used as an ornament and not a holy symbol, and is often seen.

Obsidian: Also called natural glass or volcanic glass. Obsidian is hard, glossy, and black, and is volcanic in origin. If is often chipped into arrowheads or larger chunks used as weapons, but the orna-mental grade of stone is usually polished and smoothed. An inferior form of obsid-ian (decreased value) is called pitchstone, and is both duller and rougher than vol-canic glass. Obsidian is also used in carved figures and figurines, including the magical obsidian steed.

Oolite: A quartz variety which occurs in minute spherules. It is solid brown in color, and is very similar to wave-patterned algae. Too small (commonly up to 1/16-inch diameter) to be cut, oolite spherules are usually polished to bring out the color and mounted in silver jew-elry (particularly tiaras or pectorals).

Ophealine: The Realms name for axi-nite, also called “glass stone” or, if violet in hue, “yanolite.” It is commonly brown in color—such a vivid brown that large c r y s t a l s a p p e a r a l m o s t o p a q u e . Ophealine is cut in facets, and although not possessing one of the most attractive gemstone hues, it can yield finished gem-stones of considerable size, both hard and durable. On the streets of Waterdeep, such gems were once known as “knuckle stones;” when polished and mounted on rings, their sharp edges have laid open many a noble’s or thief’s face at many a drunken party.

Rhodochrosite: A translucent, pink stone with a glassy luster. Rhodochrosite is usually tumbled smooth and polished, displayed in pendants and rings.

Rosaline: Also known as unionite, thu-lite, or pink zoisite. This is a stone found in massive, soft quantities (usually cut in 1-pound blocks for trading, and later cut cabochon), or in harder crystals of vivid trichroism (three colors in the gem, often purple, blue, and red, or purple, green, and red). The trichoism is cut in facets.

Large crystals of this latter variety have brought higher prices when fashions have turned to brooches and rings adorned with rosaline (treat as higher value stone).

Saganite: A variety of chalcedony with numerous straight, needle-like inclusions of a different color (usually ivory or yel-low with brown or greenish black nee-dles). The needles often radiate, starlike,

from a common center. Saganite occurs in large deposits and is often sold in fist-sized (or larger) chunks. In Amn, one may hear two tradesmen discussing the sale price of “a fist of saganite.” Saganite is sometimes called “needle stone,” “love stone,” or “hairstone.”

Sanidine: A feldspar gemstone, pale tan to straw yellow in color, found on the surface of gravel screes or sand dunes. It is cut into faceted gems of ring-stone size or smaller, and is a favorite of nomadic des-ert peoples.

Sarbossa: This stone bears a wide vari-ety of alternate names: thomsonite, lin-tonite, complin-tonite, ozakite, eye stone, or fire rock. It is found in small (up to 1-inch diameter) nodules in small cavities in rocks formed during volcanic eruptions, is fibrous, and therefore both tough and soft. It is basically grayish green in color, but is sometimes beautifully colored with rings of pink, red, white and green.

Satin Spar: The sparkling variety of gypsum, also known as “feather gypsum,”

used in gemstone carvings. It is very soft but accepts a good polish. Satin spar is naturally white, pink, pale orange, or pale brown, but can be dyed to almost any solid hue. (This process, however, kills its sparkle.)

Sharpstone: Another name for novacu-luite, a quartz variety that occurs in vari-ous colors. Commonly quarried as a gritty sharpening stone, it is sometimes fine enough for gemstone use, cut cabo-chon. It is difficult to polish to a high lus-ter, but can yield large stones.

Sheen: A variety of obsidian which has many minute, spangly inclusions, ranging in color from mahogany to silver and gold (the most valuable of these, gold sheen, is a semi-precious stone). Sheen is usually tumbled (if large and attractive) or cut

ca-Harper’s mark: “grave”

or “tomb”

bochon, and can be polished to a glossy, (rarely) displays gray and yellow bands gleaming finish. and eyes (rings) when so cut.

Silkstone: A quartz gemstone, a spe-cial, fibrous variety of tiger eye which has a faint sparkle. It is found in many colors, yellow being the most abundant, and is cut cabochon, tumbled, or used for en-graved gems. As tiger eye, silkstone is worn as a protection from spirits, though this is more old-wives’-tale than fact.

Snowflake Obsidian: An obsidian vari-ety found in the Realms in large deposits (of volcanic origin). It is black with gray-ish, flowerlike patches that often, espe-cially if some stone can be cut away, radiate symmetrically, resembling snow-flakes. It is brittle and weak, but often used for small carvings. It is either tum-bled to gemstone form for sale, or sold in

“trade blocks” (large, irregular chunks, as quarried) of up to 25 pounds.

Sunstone: A feldspar gem, closely re-lated to moonstone, and more properly known as oligoclase. Sunstone can be col-orless or faintly greenish and of facet grade, but most common by far is its softer (cabochon) variety. This rarely yields gemstones more than ¾-inch in di-ameter, and has bright red or orange spangles (minute crystals) suspended in a nearly colorless background in a parallel fashion, giving the whole a rich golden or reddish brown color.

Thuparlial: Also called prehnite, this hard, tough gemstone varies in color from rich green through pale greenish yellow and yellow to brown. It is translucent and is cut in facets if light-colored, but other-wise cut cabochon. It is abundant in hard-ened lavas as crust lining gas cavities in the rock, but only rarely is this crust thick enough or colorful enough to be cut into gemstones.

Tiger Eye Agate: A golden agate with dark brown striping which gives the stone its name. Legends state that the tiger eye is useful in repelling spirits. While this is not true, the agate is ground and used both in preparing potions and in creating magical markings.

Turquoise: An opaque aqua stone with darker mottlings, turquoise is found in the more arid reaches of the Realms. Spec-imens lacking impurities are prized by elves. Horsemen will often place a sliver of this stone in a horse’s harness as a sign of good luck.

Variscite: A translucent stone, deep to pale (yellowish) green, found in nodules or in rock seams. It is also known as lucinite and peganite here. It is cut cabochon, and

Violine: A purple variety of volcanic gem, found in patches mixed with other minerals. It is cut cabochon or faceted ba-guette, and occasionally yields stones of unusual size.

Webstone: The stone known by this name is spiderweb obsidian here. Web-stone is an obsidian variety in which small pieces of the stone have been cemented to-gether by heat and pressure in an irregular mass, the joints showing as irregular, weblike lines. It is usually black, the join lines sometimes showing white, but brown, reddish brown, and rust-red vari-eties have been found.

Wonderstones: A rhyolite variety dis-playing bands of red, brown, tan, or pur-ple. It occurs in large deposits, and can be cut into blocks of almost a cubic foot in size when quarried. It is typically cut ca-bochon, and takes a fair to good polish.

Woodtine: The name of this stone is a corruption of the odd term “wood tin,”

applied colloquially here to a variety of casseiterite. It is found in large nodules, is brownish and fibrous, and is cut cabo-chon.

Zarbrina: The name given in the Realms to cerussite, an extremely soft, leadlike mineral, colorless and easily cut into brilliant faceted gems. It is usually mounted in ceremonial, little-used jew-elry, or set in small metal claw mounts into the sleeves or collar-hems of gowns because of its softness.