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[worksmarter4yourfuture]

Silver And Gold Solutions Shares The Power Of Precious Metals: Special Event

Silver and Gold Solutions shares the Power of Precious Metals a Special Event March 2nd 2024! Silver and Gold Solutions located in Galena Illinois brings the power of precious metals to Jo Daviess County in Illinois.  Celebrating 3 years with an open-house celebration on Saturday, March 2nd 2024. What started out as a way for an Entrepreneur to save for his family and his future, has evolved into…

[cressidagrey]

Thanks to far too much CC and three hours of my time: Meet my OCs in Sim form!

From Right to Left: Oriana Fireborn Belmont, Galena Kosciarz, Embelia and Ciara

[curious-kat]

A secret rock garden! What a wonderful find!

I'm not going to attempt series rock ID across a screen--for one thing I such at mineral identification, and for another handling the rocks in person and observing their taste, mass, texture, and the way the light plays over the surface is a big part of rock ID.

What I will say is this: some of these rocks are potentially quite valuable. Those large crystalline mineral samples in the first couple photos especially are of a quality that go for hundreds of dollars apiece. It almost doesn't matter what the minerals are--any crystals of that size and quality are worth quite a bit.

The fossils might be worth something as well, although where I'm from brachiopods are dime a dozen. Also, fossils are generally worth less without provenance, which you don't have for these rocks, unfortunately.

Even if you plan to keep all these rocks (as I would--how cool is it to find buried treasure in your backyard?) I would see if you can find a geologist or minerologist to come out and appraise your new rocks. Just so you have some idea what the ballpark is.

Who wants to help me ID some rocks?

So one of the cool things that got left at the new house is the former owner's rock and fossil collection, which they meticulously catalogued by which I mean they left them out under some junipers in the back yard. The power is out, so I'm spraying some of the dirt and leaves off with the hose, but if anyone has guesses I'd love to hear them.

1. The Big Fucker:

(10 in screwdriver for scale)

First clue that there was a secret collection, this was the only one really visible. Pale translucent blue-green cubic crystals and skinny, more opaque/white ones on top of a heavy dull white rock. Pretty, whatever she is.

2. Salt n Peppa

Pretty sure the black stuff is smoky quartz, but what are the white cubes and the red rock it's on?

3. Sparkly Bois:

Two of these- I think the little cubes are pyrite, but what's the dark, shiny/metallic stuff? Very heavy for their size.

4. Assorted Dead Things!

Fossil clams and a coral I think, but if anyone knows anything more specific I'd love to hear it. Pretty sure most of these things are from the Rockies/front range area but genuinely, I don't know where they got them.

5. IDK what she is, but her name is Helen:

Like a bunch of criss-crossing wafers. Not very heavy for her size.

6. Green Stuff:

What are the green crystals coming out of this rock? They're cool, whatever they are.

7. Miscellaneous Shinies:

Assorted small rocks I found while digging. Small dead clam, I think some of that is mica, and I'm really curious about the shiny stuff on the granite (?).

Part 1/2, gonna hose some more rocks while y'all speculate.

[tinydefector]

Cybertronian Drinks and Food

So wanted to try and make a little interactive thing for y'all to send in as request. I'm sure you guys have seen this piece I've made for some of the Energon and Minerals the Transformers consume. Send in to my ask box

So I'm giving you guys the power to send in different things from this list to be made into energon drink art. Or edibles of a sort.

Energon and Fuels

Dark Energon

Synthetic Energon

Tox-En

Red Energon

engex

High grade

Energon wine

Energon Z

Natural Energon

Pure energon

Biofuel

super energon

Energon rod

EnerGULP

Diesel

unleaded petrol

95-octane

E10

E85 - flex-fuel

Jet A and Jet A1 Jet B

JET-A, JP5, JP8

LH2/LOX

RP-1/LOX

kerosene

LSFO

Oil

Minerals, Crystal's and Chemicals    

Petroleum

Hydrogen

Copper

Aluminium

Titanium

Lead

Tin

Nickel

Gold

Zinc

Magnesium

Cobalt

Tungsten

Platinum

Chromium

Silver

Manganese

Sodium

Beryllium

Vanadium

Molybdenum

Palladium

Uranium

Zirconium

Bismuth

Cadmium

Mercury

Hafnium

Lanthanum

Niobium

Rhodium

Scandium

Tantalum

Yttrium

Cerium

Plutonium

Lithium

Neptunium

Meitnerium

Seaborgium

Dubnium

Francium

Gallium

Indium

Potassium

Rubidium

Strontium

Thallium

Barium

Calcium

Cesium

Calcite

Pyrite

Copper

Quartz

Benitoite

Diamond

Fluorite

Galena

Garnet

Gold

Oxide

Sulfides

Gypsum

Halite

Phosphates

Sulfates

Carbonates

Iron

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[teratocrat]

A single yellow dwarf, unremarkable, of about 1.0218 solar masses. And in its corona, dancing aurora-dragons, ribbons and feathers of nine-colored light, singing and reciting poetry to each other and hitching freezing rides on the asteroids and comets that swing close enough to the star to leap out onto.

One small, dense planet, frosted over with incandescent stormclouds that snow lead flakes onto the slopes of volcanoes whose calderas are choked with galena coral reefs, the bones of colonies of radiation-tolerant extremophilic microorganisms, and where sulfur-swamps coat the lazy tideless beaches of the planet's only ocean, stirred and tilled by people like lanky bundles of black ironstraw, who heap their storehouses high with xanthous dried fusegrass.

One larger, much cooler planet, the calcite gleam of its moon hidden from the surface much of the time by cloudcover. warm, shallow, mildly acidic seas of lavender mucous, tentative marshes of weeping fuschia ferns, translucent lapine blobs with probing antennae that could be eyes or ears or questing tongues, and in the middle of the deepest ocean, a massive gelatinous thing, a superorganism like a rose with its stem plunging down into the volcanic baths of an oceanic rift, a mind from whom all other minds on this planet came and to which they occasionally return, eager to share their stories.

One rocky planet, bitterly cold and with the merest wisps of atmosphere clinging to it. Lifeless, all its water burned off it by baleful solar glare, the vast horizon-spanning saltpan seafloors bone-bare under the violet sky, and its moon hanging above like a clenched fist of black basalt.

An asteroid belt, scattered diamond motes of ice and stone and clay and metals, with three dwarf planets in its embrace, and the largest of them bearing a banner of silver and midnight, a unicorn guarding some alien tree.

A planet one might almost mistake for Earth, for all its snake-necked tortoise-camels and gold-feathered tigermen, for all its gleaming pentagonal ziggurats of diamond and steel, its three space elevators anchored in the emerald forests that girdle the equator, the capital of an interplanetary empire founded at the mouth of an immense river lazily piling hundreds of tons of silt a year into delta marshes, its vast ports berthing wide, flat-bottomed barges hauling iron and salt and sand and cinnabar, barrels of fish and wine and oil and perfumes, tigerman janissaries and scholars and poets and wizards, all tallied and accounted for in the lightning thoughts of supercomputers domesticated by bureaucracy. spaceplanes like silver songbirds or leaping fish ferrying the nobility (who disdain regular shuttle flights from the tips of the space elevators as base transportation for commoners) from the surface of the planet to its moon above, or to any number of gleaming stations in high orbit.

A gas giant, pale as pearl streaked with delicate pink and green pastels, skirted by dozens of captured child-moons, many of them bearing the same unicorn banner, some of them mined for this or that rare earth element, cities buried under the shielding crust of a scant handful, and two of them habitiformed enough to support imperial hunting grounds - managed grasslands or forests full of imported game - and hunting lodges of squat domes and towering spires, mirrored labyrinthine greenhouse-gardens and treasure-vaults of platinum jewelry set with nebula-gems snatched from their condensation-nests in the gas giant's depths.

Another gas giant, the blues and purples of a ripe plum blushing from clouds of midnight-black marbled with gold, icy rings slicing through swirling lunar orbits, merchants and mercenaries and privateers gliding from port to port in their sapphire-hulled ships, out where the empire scrabbles to find purchase. hollowed-out asteroids house cylindrical farms or monasteries of fatalistic leonine faiths or the huddled bodies of wound-down murine clockwork eunuchs, commissioned to advise and amuse some tiger-empress whose phoenix standard had long since faded into obscurity by the time the founder of the unicorn-banner dynasty first rallied soldiers to his cause.

An Earth-sized ball of grey-green ice, glassy smooth surfaces broken up by cryovolcanoes pumping volatiles up from a sooty core to rain down again in miserable pattering drizzles of methane through ammonia blizzards.

An ice giant, the immense azure sphere its inward neighbor might have been were it not for the vagaries of fate as involved in early star system formation, accompanied by seventeen bitterly cold moons whose tides have woven something enormous and ponderous of thought out of the inner sea of supercritical fluids.

a dozen or more dwarf planets of packed stone and ice, swinging through the outer black clouds on vastly elliptical orbits, witnesses to tumbling nickel-iron visitors and alien probes relaying streams of blurry photography and other observations back to some unknown homeworld as they fall endlessly through interstellar space.

[shroudandsands]

Prompt #23: On Cloud Nine

“Wanna see somethin’ cool?” Her fool’s gold gaze flicked up towards him. He was sitting on the edge of her balcony. She didn’t ask how he got there. “…Sure. Why not?”

The plaza outside the residential unit was empty, clear, and blessedly free of any of the sentries on patrol. Pyrite was kicked back on a bench with a drink from the Vue in her hand, lazily watching him with a raised brow and a constant question resting on her lips. It went unsaid, of course, as he stood a little ways before her and stared up towards the top of the building. Inspecting, waiting. He clicked his tongue. “Alright. Surveillance gone- You just hang out down here, yeah?” He gave her a thumbs-up and an award winning smile that hadn’t quite gained all the years that would come. “I promise it won’t take long.” “Sure, Gal, I’ll wait. Long as you don’t expect me to follow you up there. Or you don’t come down with somethin’ that’s gonna get the Queen asking us where our minds went…” All she got back was a wink. She sighed.

He was already scrambling up the side of the building before she could say anything else. He wasn’t normally much of a law-breaker. No reason to be in his life. But there was one law he took great glee in disrespecting at every opportunity- As he flung himself from the bottom of a wall to its top ledge with nothing but his fingertips and toes he gave a loving curse to gravity trying to keep him on the ground. A surveillance drone’s engines whined underneath him as he slipped into a nook that barely fit him. Just enough to hide from its gaze as it swung around the building; then upon finding nothing worth looking at, it chirped and swerved to fly off towards the overpass that lay high above them. He tried not to laugh. Tried not to wave at it as it went. Another floor up, another terrace, now he was really getting into the weeds. Portions that were never really meant for some random people to be climbing on. Or standing on. Or just being near. He was fairly certain most of the top side of the building was maintained by drones and sentries judging by how little of it seemed to be made accessible from the inside. Fine with him- In fact. That’s exactly why he was here. It was a pretty important part of Solution 9- and Everkeep as a whole, really- that each level was independently capable of maintaining its atmospheric conditions. Everything from air quality to humidity, temperature to air movement. And most of it was controlled by behemoth structures of electrope that were the near-constant subject of surveillance, maintenance, and updates. While he found these gargantuan machines to be truly magnificent wonders of technology, he had a more grounded focus. A smaller scale idea in mind. The selfsame machines had smaller, localized, and specialized variants spread out throughout Solution 9. Many of which adorned the top and sides of buildings and structures- Especially the residential buildings. While no access was available, really, from the insides there was no reason to restrict them from the outside. Nobody sane was gonna climb the damn thing to get to them. And even if they did, what were they gonna do? Not like they had much in the way of controls, right?

As Galena slipped his flat-knife between the body of the machine and the maintenance panel he couldn’t help the laugh that bubbled out of him. He was, frankly, insane enough to do it. Especially for something like this.

“Hey, Pyre,” Came the crackle of his voice over her earpiece. She blinked out of the daze she’d fallen into before cocking her head and looking up. She couldn’t see him. “Yeah? You in trouble… wherever you’re at?” “Nope, just wanted to ask you a question.” She sat there for a moment, her jaw set. “As long as it ain’t the one I’m thinkin’ of.” He returned the momentary silence. “Remember when I was readin’ off those old sensor reports to ya?”

She clicked her tongue as her brow furrowed. She set down the drink she’d been ignoring and took in a breath as she tried to recall- That was years ago now, wasn’t it? They’d been assigned together. She was his guard, he was the scavenger. Get into an old monitoring station and take everything- even the wiring in the walls. Honestly it hadn’t been much of a memorable day. The rain was heavy but the lightning was merciful. “…Yeah…? You found some old storage or whatever and got really excited about… weather reports? I remember it was somethin’ about the rain.” The confident sound of his laugh came crackling through. “Yeah, the rain. Really old rain and weather reports that I don’t think anybody else would care for. But do you remember the specifics of why I was so happy to find ‘em?”

He didn’t need to see her face to know what expression she made. She didn’t need to see him to know he was grinning ear to ear.

A drop of water hit her on the head. She shielded her eyes as she looked up- Another, then another. The smell of rain filled the plaza, the taste of it filling the artificial lawn, the sight of it spilling across the walkways, the feeling of a light summer shower that hadn’t graced much else in so many a year, the scent of petrichor filling her head like a drug. But the sunlight of Everkeep’s sky-high life still glinted down. Galena’s voice crackled again as she stood in it, dumbfounded by him as she watched him descend down the side of the building giddy like a kid on his birthday. He was soaked. He was laughing. He was laughing the whole way down. “Sunshowers, Rite!”

[jomindraws]

Next mineral group mapping: SULFIDES AND SULFOSALTS

P.S., I'm aware that a black canvas with dots on it isn't all too helpful, so I'll be including a copy of the topographic map on these as well so you can see where these are...

SULFIDES Pyrite - FeS2 - (Dark Gold) Chalcopyrite - CuFeS2 - (Darker Brown-Gold) Galena - PbS - (Light Steel Blue) Sphalerite - ZnS - (Light/Faded Green-Blue) Cinnabar - HgS - (Cinnabar-Burgundy Red) Molybdenite - MoS2 - (Light/Faded Lilac-Gray) HIGHER ARSENIDES Arsenopyrite - FeAsS - (Brownish-Orange) Skutterudite - (Ni,Co,Fe)As3 - (Cobalt Blue) SULFOSALTS Polybasite - (Ag,Cu)16Sb22S11 - (Grey-Camo Green) Stephanite - Ag5SbS4 - (Dark Amythest-Grey) Tetrahedrite - Cu12Sb4S13 - (Greenish-Lemon Yellow) Pyrargyrite - Ag3SbS3 - (Dark Crimson)

More mineral groups coming up ! I've got ~105 to map!

[theputterer]

*shows up an hour late with starbucks only to realize we never had an appointment* This is awkward. To make it less awkward, answer some questions for me. What song makes your body go 'oh, we should flail about to this!', what is a weird fact more people should know, and what is the ideal beverage to sip upon when it's pleasantly warm (without being too hot) outside?

aww Rifle it's always good to hear from you <3

I saw I SAW THE TV GLOW this past weekend and it Unhinged Me and i have been mainlining its soundtrack like nobody's business since. it is a great soundtrack that really Gets the dual horror and euphoria of being a teenager. a standout is "Starburned and Unkissed" by Caroline Polachek that I am obsesssedddd with

the middle name of the great American science-fiction writer known as Philip K. Dick is Kindred. Philip Kindred Dick. (his mother's maiden name was Kindred). but it is a very prescient name once you know he had a twin sister who died at six weeks old; and once you know that, you'll never stop seeing her and the idea of the "phantom twin" in his writing

a second weird fact that suggests EVERYThING IS CONNECTED: the man who invented the x-acto knife is the father of Louise Glück, the wonderful American poet.

and similarly, but possibly more relevant to your interests: here in Ireland, the mines in Glengowla were active in the latter half of the nineteenth century where they dug up gold, quartz, marble, and galena. the galena was shipped to neighboring Britain where it was made into bullets and then exported to the United States, which was experiencing a civil war at the time.

at the same time, the irishmen (because it was men) working in the mine would order supplies to be shipped to them from America because it was somehow *cheaper* to do so than to either make or buy tools in Ireland. there are wood ladders still in the mine today (can't be brought out or they'll fall apart in the non-mine air) that were once American trees. it's! all! connected!

ideal beverage to sip when it's pleasantly warm... a cup of black tea with milk that has cooled a bit so you can drink it without scalding your tongue.

this has been fun Rifle and really funny and pretty impeccable timing because I was legit thinking about messaging you to get your opinion on: a Saw Gerrara in a modern real-life world who is not a soldier: what does he do for a living???

[bekkathyst]

New Crystal Sale November 12th, 2023 List

To claim an item, please comment on the individual post. The complete rules can be found here. Please be sure to read the rules before claiming :)

Mini Flashy Labradorite Freeforms

Flashy Labradorite Pebbles

Aquamarine Teardrop Cabochons

Blue Lace Agate Teardrop Cabochons

Charoite Teardrop Cabochons

Phantom Amethyst Teardrops

Gold and Red Rutilated Quartz Teardrop Cabochons

Epidote Included Prehnite Cabochons

Rough High Grade Lavender Quartz

Quartz w UV Reactive Calcite Inner Mongolia (Large)

Quartz w UV Reactive Calcite Inner Mongolia

Pyrite, Quartz and Galena Clusters from Bulgaria

Glittery Druzy Chalcedony from Bulgaria

Garnet in Matrix Dragon Busts

Tourmalinated Quartz Freeforms

Pietersite Mini Hearts

Charoite Spheres

Kunzite Cubes

Rainbow Fluorite Roses

Deep Blue Banded Calcite Spheres

Large Included Amethyst Root Crystals w Polished Tips

Moss Agate Hearts

Obsidian Scrying Mirrors

Tiger's Eye Roses

Amethyst with Flower Agate Freeforms

Glittery Druzy Chalcedony w Galena & Goethite from Bulgaria

Large Pyrite on Quartz Clusters from Bulgaria

Barite on Galena Specimens from Bulgaria

Large Labradorite Freeforms

Polished Agate Geode "Boxes"

Rainbow Fluorite Unicorn Crescent Moon Carvings

AAA Grade Natural Citrine Polished Points

Ethiopian Water Opals

Pastel Fluorite Hawk on Skull Carving

Massive UV Reactive Sodalite-Syenite Dragon

Thank you so much! I will periodically update the list with sold out items.

[grapeagata]

What rock would you want to eat if you could? I would want to eat Pyrite and hoped it tasted like raw gold foil chocolate coins

It's hard to say, they all look so tasty! As many said already, a lot of rocks and minerals look like candy so honestly I'd like to eat them all!

If I have to say specifics I'd say Coffinite bc it looks like a crunchy chocolate cookie. Chalcanthite also just looks like some very silly candy. Cinnabar is just hard candy to me, same to Galena. Orpiment bc yellow and also again, looks like candy. Malachite is just so pretty I wanna put it in my mouth!

[spllcat]

muse as a deity.

RULES: Think carefully about your character and their development through their journey (canon or OC) within their story. Fill out the chart and tag whoever you want! Multi-muses, feel free to pick any of your characters—just a few, or all of them. Please repost, so the dash isn’t clogged with reblogs.

ELY BLAKE.

GOD OF. New beginnings, ending, transformation

ASSOCIATED WITH. second chances, restoration, new chapters, self love, remover of obstacles, rewarding perseverance with good fortune and success in new endeavors, hope and possibility, but also duality, contact with other planes of existence, death, revenge, survival, resurrection.

 SACRED PLANTS. medicinal herbs, poisonous & carnivorous plants.

daffodil ( rebirth & news beginnings ). trumpet gentian ( power & healing ). sweet cicely ( use during rituals for the dead or dying. helps with divination & the contact of spirit ). mullein ( represents the cross roads. offers protection from nightmares & hexing ). verbena ( psychic protection, peace & purification ). sweet pea ( blissful pleasure ). garden heliothrope ( devotion & dreams fulfilled ).

SACRED STONES / GEMS.

indigo gabbro ( magic, intuition, awakening ) lemurian blue calcite ( healing, past life, communication ) galena ( spiritual growth, transformation ) kambaba jasper ( grounding, earth energy, calming ) jet ( revenge, punishment ) rhodochrosite ( self love, emotional support )

SACRED ANIMALS. black cat, all felines, fox, crow, raven, owl, butterfly, moth.

COLORS. jewel tones, green, brown, red, bronze, gold, black.

FOOD. honey cakes, herbs, tea, fruits (especially apple & pomegranate), vegetables, cheeses.

SCENTS. bonfire, fertile soil, petrichor & ozone, herbal & floral, mahogany, liquorice & sulfur.

ACCEPED OFFEREINGS / WAYS TO HONOR.

acorn, pine cones, rain water, animals bones, sculpted and carved wood, bowl of herbs, flowers, cider, small cakes, blood from one's enemy, pretty trinkets, wishes & messages. volunteering at animal shelters, tending to wounded animals, sharing a meal with family or close friends, standing up for those that are marginalized, trying new things, taking care of your mental health.

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[worksmarter4yourfuture]

Silver and Gold Wealth Strategy Presentation

Insight into why silver and gold should be considered a part of your strategy for saving for your future.  Options on how you can start today and handle everything yourself.  Learn more about how you can. 

[cressidagrey]

Tumblr Masterlist:

Unless otherwise noted, all my series/stories are ongoing, which means…if you have a prompt for any of them, shoot them my way. 

A Court of Gold and Shadows

The Female that was born into the flames, and the Male that was scarred by them.

The Unexpected Series

“If you need to fuck someone, go to a pleasure hall and pay for it, but stay away from her.”

What if… Azriel actually takes Rhys at his word? And does exactly what his High Lord ordered? With unexpected consequences.

Indelible

Azriel knew pain. So did Galena.

A Pocketful of Stars

The Story of how Azriel ends up with a mate and a kid in the span of 24 hours.

The Starlight Princess

There is a Pool of Starlight in the Spring Court. A piece of the Night Court that has no business being in the land of Eternal Spring. So how did it come to be?

Or: How the Spymaster of the Night Court starts hearing a voice, realises that no, he is not insane after all, frees a princess, kills a High Lord…and finds his mate all at the same time.

The Prophecy

Eira Archeron is a a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma..and Azriel would give everything to figure her out.

Recipe for Love

At first, Azriel just really wants a slice of Peach Cobbler. Later, he thinks that the bakery owner is quite pretty too.

The Ties that Bind

Shadowsingers were made, not born. Made out of trauma and loneliness and desperation.

So when Cilla and Azriel meet and their shadows entwine, they both meet the only other person that could understand these particular childhood scars.

The last thing Azriel had ever expected from his mate, however, was for her to have a surprising connection to his brother.

The Witching Hour

5 Times members of the Inner Circle get absolutely terrified by Azriel's...whatever she is, and 1 (of many) times Azriel thinks that his witch was the best thing that ever happened to him

Brighten Up the Sky

A Mating Bond between her younger sister and the Night Court’s shadowsinger was the last thing Feyre had expected to spring up…but then, maybe it did make sense. 

Stars all aligned

If there was one thing that both Azriel and Zahra Archeron had in common, it was that they were both very good at blending into the background.

They just never thought that their family were going to be the ones who never saw them at all.

It's a Love Story

Azriel's shadows find their master a wife.

Azriel would just really like his heart not to get broken again.

And Sky...well, she's just really surprised that that far too handsome male is interested in her at all.

Dust of your Highest Hopes

Eavesdroppers never hear anything good about themselves, goes the idiom. 

When Solana hears an admission from the High Lord of Day, she’s ill-prepared for it. She doesn’t believe in fairytales any longer, but maybe there was a happily ever after for Solana and Helion somewhere.

Don't wait for the Sky to Clear

The Fourth Archeron sister makes herself a life in the Dawn Court. 

Tear the World Apart

Eris’ mate decides to get rid of her father-in-law. Also known as: If Eris Vanserra married a very bloodthirsty Margaery Tyrell.

[theirheartandsoul]

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We haven't posted in forever but hi lmfao

- Galena @askkanjohtrio

"A bunch of very interesting kids, also the first time I heard of me having a Sister not named Blue or Green"

-Silver

"Other me needs to take a break here and there."

-gold

[jonnywalkerblog]

I wasn't entirely sure what message to put, so I googled "inspirational phrases" and looked through a list. I thought this one fit the medium (a small notecard) very well and would be a good reminder to anyone who stumbled upon this on the Library wall while studying for a final. Sometimes it feels like you'll never finish studying or complete that paper, but nothin' is impossible!

Attendance prompt:

"The kind of kohl used depended on wealth and social status. The poor might use mixtures of soot and animal fats, but, as ever, the wealthy demanded something rather more special. Theirs would predominantly be made of galena, the dark metallic mineral form of lead sulfide. This would be crushed and mixed with powdered pearls, gold, coral, or emeralds to give sheen and subtle color. Frankincense, fennel, or saffron might then be added for their scent." (263)

I found it interesting that even thousands of years ago people felt the need to use forms of "fashion" to divide the wealthy from the poor. Examples of clothing, accessories, etc. indicative of wealthy people vs those indicative of lower-class people prevail in our society -- even if those indications are not accurate and just surface-level stereotypes.

[ykoriana-imperatrix]

SDC Month - December 2022 - Sunday #3

I think you can all guess who is featuring this time...

House Aurum

Here's our now-traditional helpful numbered version of the canon tree. Like @suth-sardian​ once said, it does look quite simplistic compared to the Masks, Imago and Suth ones, doesn't it? It's just that single straightforward line of descent until we get to Aurum's marriages and children.

As you know by now, those God Emperors to the side are ignored for this project's numbering. Unusually, I did include Aurum himself, despite not doing so for Jaspar, Sardian, Carnelian, et al, for reasons which will be explained below.

The wife of this first Ruling Lord is named Chromia (from the element chromium; there’s a bit of a theme there and with other Aurums, since the House is named after the Latin for gold, another transition metal) and she is a fellow Aurum, a second lineage lady, more precisely. (According to the author, those marriages tend to be avoided for the most part, but @suth-sardian​ and I just decided this would be one of those more unusual cases where it did happen due to specific circumstances.) We have her as being born in -190/43 Nuhqanya and dying in -111/41 Qusaqanya.

The Ruling Lord himself is Ferrum (from the Latin name for iron). Since his birth year, death year, date of accession and blood-taint are all identical to those of the Imago lord we named Elbanith in fanon, that is what precipitated the creation of Imago Istra (remember when I said she'd become relevant?). @suth-sardian​ and I decided the years would be coincidental (unlikely it might be, but statistically speaking, there would always be a possibility), but that the identical blood-taints would be a result of Ferrum and Elbanith being double first cousins (like Urquentha and Linarie in the Suth tree). Istra would have thus been Ferrum's mother, and Ferrum's aunt Sideria Elbanith's mother.

The wife of the son of Ferrum and Chromia would be named Sylvana (from sylvanite), from the fanon House Ruhadral. She was born in -128/24 Qusaqanya and died in -64/33 Qusata.

Said son would originally be named Galen (from galena, Galena itself being the name of an historical Aurum lady of note in fanon) but he took the name Iridium (from the element of that name) (which in fanon, would be that of another notable Aurum ancestor) upon his accession to the Ruling Lordship.

The son of Galen/Iridium and Sylvana married Maris (a bit unsure, but I believe her name derives from maricite), from the fanon House Lumi. She was born in -101/51 Qusaqanya and died in -22/11 Nuhuron.

Galen/Iridium and Sylvana's son was Zircon (from the mineral of that name; it seemed only appropriate, since its name derives from a word meaning “gold-hued”).

Zircon and Maris' own son wed Ametra (from ametrine) from the fanon House Naranith. She was born in -89/8 Qusata and died in -6/27 Nuhuron.

Ametra's husband was Pyrite (named after the mineral of the same name; and yes, that is a bit of a jab at the name of the House itself, since pyrite is often referred to as "fool's gold"). Now, he was a character who went through a significant change in terms of dates, because since (as mentioned in an earlier post from this month) the canon Aurum was actually supposed to be 20 years older than in this tree, the dates from the tree weren't compatible with that. Our solution to this, while trying to make as few changes as possible to the dates from the tree, was to have both Zircon and Pyrite become fathers at young ages, and only change Pyrite's birth year, which in fanon is -83/14 Qusata instead of -68/29 Qusata.

Aurum's first wife was given the name Agathea (from agate) and is from the fanon House Akana. She was born in -49/48 Qusata, which yes, would mean she would be yet another character around by canon era (which could actually be canonically the case, I mean, we know next to nothing about her, it's not impossible). (@suth-sardian​ and I don't see her as still living in Coomb Aurum in fanon, though; her match with Aurum was set to a specific period of time, and so she would have long since returned to her birth House.)

Yes, Suth Ruby was already discussed in the House Suth post last week, but given that pesky question mark in place of a death date, I thought I would number her again here, and add that we do see her as being very much alive by the time the events of the story start in fanon.

Not much should have to be said about the man himself, but since he does canonically lack one, @suth-sardian​ and I decided his given name in fanon would be Akriuros (his original name in an earlier version of the story’s development; also that of another renowned ancestor in fanon). And, as mentioned above, his actual birth year, in canon and fanon both, would be -66/31 Qusata.

Aurum (or Akriuros, whichever you prefer) and Agathea's son was named Zircon, after his great-grandfather (whom he actually got to meet, how interesting is that). I did feel we could do with some more namesakes; I think it would hardly be an unheard of practice in such a heavily patriarchal society, even if we don't really see any in canon (but then again, we know few given names of Chosen characters outside the House of the Masks).

Aurum and Ruby's first daughter was named Xineya, which was Urquentha's original name, and still remains as a leftover from that earlier developmental version in the current Suth tree. (And yes, that would mean she is named after her grandmother in a way, which is sweet.)

Their second daughter is Sapphire (after, of course, the gemstone of that name, which is, like ruby, a variety of corundum).

The third daughter is Jacintha (from jacinth, a variety of zircon). (So she would be named after her late half-brother and great-grandfather in a sense.)

Extra notes: As you might or might not have noticed, @suth-sardian​ and I did try to include a few longer-lived people (well, mostly Istra, Chromia, Maris and Ametra, since the elder Zircon's longer lifespan was already canon) among Aurum's fanon ancestors, to have that little hint there that his own longevity might have a genetic component to it.

As always, hopefully you enjoyed this post. Tune in next time for the fourth and last installment in this series!