#Galena gold

[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

[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.

[faewitchsdeities]

𝕷𝖔𝖐𝖎

(𝙻𝚘𝚔𝚒) ʷʰʸ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᵏ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵗᵒ ˡᵒᵒᵏ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵃᵗ↑ ₒ ₋ ₒ

𝕺𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊(𝖘): Lokee, Luki, Logi, Lukkanet, Locke sprindlar

𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖔𝖋: Trickery, Mischief, Cunning, and Seduction

𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖉𝖆𝖞(𝖘): April fools, July 23rd, Autumn equinox, Loki's Blot, Samhain, Yule, Thursday

𝕽𝖊𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘: Son of Farbauti and Laufey, mother of Sleipnir, father of Hel, Jormungandr, and Fenrir, as well as Narfi. PACT BROTHER WITH ODIN. (Not Thor -.-) , Husband to Sigyn and lover to Angrboda

𝕰𝖓𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖘: Heimdall, (arguably the other Aesir)

𝕾𝖞𝖒𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖒-

𝕬𝖓𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖑(𝖘): snakes, foxes, wolves, coyote, ravens/crows, horses, goats, flies, spider, ant, seal, salmon

𝕺𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗: Double snake symbol (Urnes), knots, chaos star, hearts, figure 8s, Naglfar, Loki's mask, fishing nets, lightning, earthquakes, the numbers 0, 1, 3, &8, shackles

𝕮𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗(𝖘): red, orange, purple, violet, indigo, black, green, gold

𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙: Fire and Air

𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖙: Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Dark moon/waning moon

𝖅𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖈𝖘: Aries

𝕾𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖗 𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖘: Hermes, Lugh

𝕺𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘- Singing, dancing, helping minorities and children

𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖇𝖘/𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘: aconite amber resin bentgrass birch burdock root cedar cinnamon clove clover dandelion dragon's blood ebony elder hemlock hemp/weed holly ivy juniper lavender mandrake root mistletoe moss myrrh patchouli rue tobacco

𝕱𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖘: Anything sweet- candies chocolates coffee fruits pastries soda/juice drinks sugar etc.. - as well as red foods- cherries cranberries peppers pomegranate strawberries tomatoes etc..

𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘/𝖈𝖗𝖞𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖘/𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖘: acrylic amber bronze clear quartz coins and other cheap random metals diamond fire opal fools gold galena garnet glass gold gold stones grenade lead magnesium obsidian onyx plastic red jasper rutilated quartz silver

𝕺𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗: Incense, shiny things, plastic and stuffed toys, found/cheap things preferred, bunny, snake, fox, and raven imagery, art and poetry, knots, hearts, fishnets, lightning imagery,

𝕴𝖓𝖛𝖔𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐: Aids in spells with getting through tough, tight, and narrow situations, owning up to your shit, mischief, cunning plans, change, cleverness, creativity, youthfulness and beauty, seduction, androgyny, blessing and sharpening a blade or knife.

𝕬𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊: Tall with a slim/cut muscular body type. Long pretty red hair, green/violet/gold eyes, a masculine yet feminine face and a sharp jaw, said to be one of the most beautiful Jotunn.

𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖊/𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘: ~A cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex, the creator of lightning, hearth fire, the spirit of life. In the beginning he was a beloved friend and honorary member of the Aesir, but toward the end he became an enemy.. Was/is a companion of Odin and Thor, helping them with his clever plans but sometimes causing them embarrassment and difficulties, though also being any enemy of sorts. Though his father was a Jotunn (a giant), his mother was considered a goddess, thus Loki is included among the Aesir.

-Once cut off Thor's wife's hair and was forced to replace it. He tricked dwarves into a wager for his head if they could deliver wonderful gifts the the gods (including the hair). They made a hammer for Thor, A great spear and a drop-near gold bracelet for Odin, A boat and a huge golden boar for Freyr, and of course new hair made of gold for Sif -Thor's wife. Loki then told the dwarves that the wager said that they could only take his head and that they could not damage his neck. They were enraged but Odin told them that they should have paid more attention when making a wager with the god of trickery. Though Loki was still punished by having his mouth sowed shut so he couldn't deceive for a long time.

-One day someone stole Thor's hammer and left a ransom note, later demanding Freya's hand in return for the hammer that protected both Asgard and Midgard. Loki had an idea though, -much to Thor's dismay- he dressed the thunder god as a bride and took advantage of the giant thief's poor sight. (Also disguising himself as a woman) He tricked the giant, successfully making him think that Thor was Freya. As they ate Thor let out his apatite and the giant said something about his bride having a big stomach. To avoid being caught Loki said that the "goddess" was just eager to consummate their marriage. Thor was furious and embarrassed. The giant got excited and foolishly set the hammer on the table next to Thor. The thunder god took his hammer back and smashed the giant's head, all while still wearing his pretty dress. The gods always had fun talking about the time when Thor dressed up in drag.

-One day a builder came to Asgard offering to make them a wall that they needed. He said he could do it in record time, but that he wanted Freya's hand in return. The gods were enraged by his audacity and said no but Loki convinced them to set a wager- he could have the goddess as his wife if he was able to do the impossible task in an impossible amount of time. The idea was that he would try his hardest but not be able to finish in time, therefore giving the gods a free wall that they could just finish the end of. But the builder had a strong and mystical horse that could lift and carry all the large pieces for him. As the builder got closer and closer to finishing with time still left, the other gods we nervous and angry with Loki- who told them he had a plan. He turned himself into a beautiful mare and seduced the builder's horse, running off to the woods with him, and rendering the builder unable to finish the wall. Enraged, the builder revealed himself as a Giant and was killed, his head smashed in by Thor's hammer. Loki returned much later with an eight legged colt; his son Sleipnir which he gifted to Odin when he got older and stronger- in exchange for the horse's origin to be kept secret.

-It's said that he gave humans lightning to warn them of Thor's loud thunder before it happens, because he knew it was frightening. The swift walker of the skies is the lightning running ahead of Thor's great thundering cart.

-Tricked Baldr's blind brother Hodr into throwing the one thing that would kill the god; mistletoe- right at his chest. He indirectly killed Frigg's son; one of the most beloved god's in all the Aesir. As his punishment his one of his sons turned and killed the other and he was tied to a stone in a cave, by his dead son's entrails- a snake coiled on a stalactite above his face, dripping venom down onto him. Though Loki's wife Sigyn sat by his side and held a bowl over his face to protect him, she had to move every once in a while to empty the bowl, allowing the poison to drip onto his face as he convulsed, causing the first earthquakes in Midgard. It is said that he was to break from his chains and aid in Ragnarock. Baldr's story goes on to describe the burning of his body in a funeral pyre on his ship, Nanna accompanying him. BUT in another version, the goddess Frigg persuaded the other gods to restore Balder to life. She repaid their obliging wizardry with kisses. (THIS IS WHERE THIS IS MY THEORY) if the second ending is true and Baldr is alive, I think that Odin would eventually release Loki under the guise that he either not cause Ragnarok or aid the Aesir instead of what was prophesized. [I haven't really thought that a deity was speaking directly to me until I read this story, it's like I saw it and it came at me all at once like a vision. Just thought I'd include it.])

[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.

tagged by. @carnivorare 💕 tagging. @wickedslip @contradictivs @faerytle @pumpcursed @citizenstarlight @insanislupus @ma1ignant @goldenlilja @ruinedmyself @hedonst

[reddpenn]

you cant even lie bismuth looks so freaking scolol but that begs the question why is it so cool/rainbowish colored

I think I’ve explained this before, but I never get tired of talking about rocks so bear with me as I wax scientific about it again! The answers are hopper crystals and oxidation.

Hopper crystals are a type of crystal habit which form when the outside edges of a crystal grow faster than the center. This happens because of electrical attraction, a process too complicated to explain here but which I’ll inaccurately call “static cling on a molecular level.” Basically, a hopper crystal’s electrical field pulls in molecules more strongly at the edges than the center. As the edges of the crystal keep trying to grow bigger and bigger, the inside doesn’t have enough material to fill itself in, so you end up with a hollow, boxy, funnel shape that resembles a grain hopper! This shape is not unique to bismuth; plenty of other crystals can form like this. Some examples would be halite (salt), galena (lead ore) and gold (gold).

Oxidation (in the context of geology) is a chemical reaction between oxygen and some other substance. It’s actually a process you see all the time - when iron is exposed to oxygen, it undergoes a chemical reaction that turns it into iron oxide (rust). That’s oxidation! Bismuth is also a metal that oxidizes. When exposed to the air, its surface undergoes a chemical reaction and turns into a thin film of bismuth oxide. When light passes through this microscopic layer, it’s affected by thin-film interference, which is again too complicated an optical phenomenon to explain here, but it’s the same thing that causes oil slicks and soap bubbles to look iridescent.

The reason lab-grown bismuth crystals look iridescent and native bismuth looks grey is because you’re seeing bismuth which has only just started oxidizing. If allowed to continue reacting to the air, that film of bismuth oxide will grow thicker and darker, eventually turning a dull, uniform grey. When lab-grown bismuth crystals are produced, they’re given a coating of varnish to seal them from the air and stop their oxidation, so they always stay in the pretty iridescent stage of the reaction. Some places on the internet mistakenly claim that it’s the varnish itself that causes the color - like it’s some manmade iridescent coating. But that iridescence is naturally occurring! It just had some help to stay that way.

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

The origins of pipeweed

We know that pipeweed was originally brought to Middle-earth by the Númenóreans, who called it sweet galenas. But where did it came from before that?

Númenor was created by the Valar at the beginning of the Second Age, so the island can’t have had native flora or fauna. I’m sure the Edain brought animals and plants with them from Middle-earth when they settled there, but that still begs the question, where did pipeweed actually come from?

And I have a theory! It came from Valinor.

Númenor received ship visit from Tol Eressëa for a time. The Elves definitely could have brought plants or seeds with them as gifts. It also says in The Silmarillion that flowers grew on Tol Eressëa:

“Then through Calacirya, the Pass of Light, the radiance of the Blessed Realm streamed forth, kindling the dark waves to silver and gold, and it touched the Lonely Isle, and its western shore grew green and fair. There bloomed the first flowers that ever were east of the Mountains of Aman.”

I mean, I know this is far from conclusive proof. But it doesn’t say there wasn’t sweet galenas among those flowers! And pipeweed had to come from somewhere.

All of this is to say: there’s totally pipeweed in Valinor and that’s really good news because it means when Gandalf returns home at the end of ROTK he can still have a good smoke. And so can Bilbo, Frodo and Sam! :)

[theirheartandsoul]

🌋

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

[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]

Masterlist

I am currently writing mostly for A Court of Thorns and Roses (We'll see how long that obsession lasts…) 

All of these link to my AO3, mostly because that's my personal favorite site to read fan fiction on, and it's much easier to make multiple stories into a series!

All my fan fiction on Tumblr can be found @cgslibrary! (Which is also used instead of a taglist, because I can never keep up with that!)

Ongoing Series/Stories are  marked with an asterisk (*) and for more information about ratings, content warnings, and additional minor pairings, please check the tags on AO3. 

The Court of Gold and Shadows*

you'll be made of ashes too

Elain Archeron makes the most beautiful bride.

Azriel copes.

for the first time, what's past is past

Of all the ways, Azriel expected to meet his mate, this wasn't it. 

something good and right and real

Azriel had spent centuries believing that he of all people didn't deserve a mate. And if anything, the last three years had just galvinised that particular belief. And then he meets her.

The first time Oriana met Azriel, she thought that he reminded her of a skittish cat. Shy and a little bit broken. Good for him that she absolutely excelled in fixing the things around her.

Romance is not dead if you keep it just yours

5 Times Cassian thought that Azriel had feelings for somebody and then the 1 time he finally met the girl his brother was in love with. 

I breathe flames each time I talk

The story of how Oriana Fireborn Belmont, Third Daughter of the First Daughter, met her mate's family.

Also the story of how Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court finally recognises that by the cauldron, there is no fury like that of a female scorned.

Meanwhile, Azriel would just like everybody to get along.

The Unexpected Series*

Unknowing

“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.

This is the Inner Circle finding out about said consequences. Azriel is very good at keeping secrets

Indelible*

Indelible Scars

Azriel knew pain. So did Galena.

Also known as: Azriel’s mate is a healer and the first time they meet, he nearly dies on her.

Glorious Sunrise

So what happens after the mating bond snaps?

Well-meaning interfering family members, deep conversations and nights spent brooding on the roof like some kind of gargoyle…this one has it all.

(The Smutty Sequel y’all asked for ;) )

A Pocketful of Stars*

New Pursuits

The shadows decide that Azriel needs a hobby.

5 times when said hobby-related shenanigans didn’t end so well…and the one time where it may end up better than Azriel could ever have imagined.

Welcome to the World 

The quickest turnaround time between finding your mate and having a kid anybody in the history of Prythian has ever managed

The Starlight Princess*

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

Lightning in a Bottle

Eira Archeron was neither a Valkyrie, nor a Seer, nor the High Lady of the Night Court. She was actually pretty much useless. The only thing she wanted was to be somebody's first choice for once in her life.

Also known as: Azriel's shadows decide that if he doesn't treat his mate right... they'll just do it for him.

(Super pretty dividers thanks to @tsunami-of-tears !)

[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!

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