Nov-14-2010, 10:53 AM (UTC)
It sounds like it could be something worth looking deeper into. There is the reference I made in the Mythical Creatures thread regarding "dangerous sorcerers spell-locked in caves of gems" - does the cave simply have gems in it or is it the gems themselves that form a part of the spell? All very interesting!
I can't help but think of the friezes on the walls of the Kelsingra map tower (Cariandra the Fecund with her plough/oxen and Sessicaria the dragon), which were white against the black stone of the tower. I have long wondered what the source of the white material was, and now have to further question if it could possibly be crystal or something similar? I can't think what purpose it would serve as an external decoration though, and the crystal within the memory stone tends to be described as silver, not white (which I always took as a connection to the silver of the Skill River?). With this in mind, and the fact that Fitz describes it as 'white stone', suggests that it is most likely some other material? From where would white stone be quarried?
I overlooked including these two objects in my list of Kennit's findings from Others Island but, as well as a copper feather, he also found a "handful of small crystal spheres" on a final stretch of beach. I will add those to the list in the related thread but the 'crystal' element bears significance here, I think.
I can't help but think of the friezes on the walls of the Kelsingra map tower (Cariandra the Fecund with her plough/oxen and Sessicaria the dragon), which were white against the black stone of the tower. I have long wondered what the source of the white material was, and now have to further question if it could possibly be crystal or something similar? I can't think what purpose it would serve as an external decoration though, and the crystal within the memory stone tends to be described as silver, not white (which I always took as a connection to the silver of the Skill River?). With this in mind, and the fact that Fitz describes it as 'white stone', suggests that it is most likely some other material? From where would white stone be quarried?
I overlooked including these two objects in my list of Kennit's findings from Others Island but, as well as a copper feather, he also found a "handful of small crystal spheres" on a final stretch of beach. I will add those to the list in the related thread but the 'crystal' element bears significance here, I think.
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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