Nov-12-2010, 04:12 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Nov-12-2010, 04:16 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
My last post for a while, I promise 
...I really DO have a life, and a busy one at that!
Another thought on crystals...memory stone is lined with crystal (the white seams that are within the black stone). This is evidenced by passages such as:
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Six, Signposts – Fitz says of the Skill-pillar, “It was hewn of black stone with glittering crystal.”
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Seven, The City – Fitz again, “Twice more I woke the city before I realized all it took was the touch of my hand on a crystal-veined wall.”
From the same chapter – “I walked towards it and it was the same ubiquitous black stone veined with gleaming crystal.”
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Eight, The Coterie – Kettle tells Fitz, “I looked at the guidepost by daylight. It is hewn of black stone with wide threads of shining crystal in it. Like the walls of the city you describe.”
Is there a connection with the crystal in the memory stone to the magical properties of an actual ‘crystal’ used for RotE Hedge-witchery?
More evidence of the use of crystals within the realm:
In the prologue of RA – “There are the Hedge magics...These are magics both verified and suspect, including palm reading, water gazing, the interpretation of crystal reflections (now THAT definitely sounds like what Time’s Labyrinth was used for!), and a host of other magics that attempt to predict the future.”
RA, Chapter Three, Renewing Ties – Of the fair booths at Springfest, Molly says to Fitz, “One was an old man telling fortunes with crystals. You know how they do. They hold a crystal to a candle’s light, and tell your future by how the colours fall across your face.”
I doubt these following, extra points have any bearing on what’s happening in the RotE in any way but, as some fun curiosities to add in case there IS a connection, in our world a crystal is considered by some* to have “the power of a living stone” and apparently “stores and conducts energy” (sure sounds like anma-imbued memory stone, or even wizardwood to me!). A crystal is also said to have healing properties (fits with a Skill-healing!) and, if given to a friend, helps form a physically-communicative link between the giver and the receiver (the ability to Skill!).
* Not me! I simply Googled the properties of a crystal/quartz to get these little points. OMG, did I say quartz??!! Chalcedony is a form of quartz o_O !!
...I really DO have a life, and a busy one at that!Another thought on crystals...memory stone is lined with crystal (the white seams that are within the black stone). This is evidenced by passages such as:
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Six, Signposts – Fitz says of the Skill-pillar, “It was hewn of black stone with glittering crystal.”
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Seven, The City – Fitz again, “Twice more I woke the city before I realized all it took was the touch of my hand on a crystal-veined wall.”
From the same chapter – “I walked towards it and it was the same ubiquitous black stone veined with gleaming crystal.”
AQ, Chapter Twenty-Eight, The Coterie – Kettle tells Fitz, “I looked at the guidepost by daylight. It is hewn of black stone with wide threads of shining crystal in it. Like the walls of the city you describe.”
Is there a connection with the crystal in the memory stone to the magical properties of an actual ‘crystal’ used for RotE Hedge-witchery?
More evidence of the use of crystals within the realm:
In the prologue of RA – “There are the Hedge magics...These are magics both verified and suspect, including palm reading, water gazing, the interpretation of crystal reflections (now THAT definitely sounds like what Time’s Labyrinth was used for!), and a host of other magics that attempt to predict the future.”
RA, Chapter Three, Renewing Ties – Of the fair booths at Springfest, Molly says to Fitz, “One was an old man telling fortunes with crystals. You know how they do. They hold a crystal to a candle’s light, and tell your future by how the colours fall across your face.”
I doubt these following, extra points have any bearing on what’s happening in the RotE in any way but, as some fun curiosities to add in case there IS a connection, in our world a crystal is considered by some* to have “the power of a living stone” and apparently “stores and conducts energy” (sure sounds like anma-imbued memory stone, or even wizardwood to me!). A crystal is also said to have healing properties (fits with a Skill-healing!) and, if given to a friend, helps form a physically-communicative link between the giver and the receiver (the ability to Skill!).
* Not me! I simply Googled the properties of a crystal/quartz to get these little points. OMG, did I say quartz??!! Chalcedony is a form of quartz o_O !!
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