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Gems and Stones

Gems

Andar Gem  (MISC22)

Andar is hard and durable, yielding translucent gems ("Andars") that flash green-red or brown-red when properly faceted.

Value: 30

 

Aquamarine Gem  (MISC33) or (TTGEM02)<

Aquamarine is a hard, transparent form of beryl, blue-green in colour. These sought after gems are found primarily among the barbarian tribes that roam the northern tundra.

Value: 150

 

Beljuril  (MISC6Z)

Normally a deep, pleasant seawater green, beljurils periodically blaze with a glittering, winking, flashing light. Although this particular stone has a slightly different hue, perhaps a new strain, rarely if ever seen before. It looks incredibly valuable.

Value: 2000

 

Black Opal  (MISC38)

Black Opal has a greenish hue with black mottling and gold flecks. Usually found in ancient hot springs, the gem is tumbled smooth and cut cabochon. The phrase in the north "Black as an opal" is used as a subtle form of praise for kind-hearted rogues and the like.

Value: 300

 

Bloodstone Gem  (MISC20)

Bloodstone is a dark greenish gray variety of quartz flecked with red crystal impurities. Ninety percent of the bloodstones in the Realms come from the Galena Mountains in Damara, and most of those from a single mine in Bloodstone Pass. The border pass is heavily fortified and guarded as bloodstones are the chief export for this region.

Value: 50

 

Chrysoberyl Gem  (MISC30)

Chrysoberyl is a hard, transparent, green gem which is usually facet- cut. It is said that Chrysoberyl has ties to the outer planes and hence its use with battling demonic possession and the undead.

Value: 70

 

Deirex's Gem  (MISCBH)

These are the gems in which the lich Deirex stores imprisoned souls of his enemies.

Value: 1

 

Diamond  (MISC42)

Diamond is a hard clear gem which can be clear blue-white, rich blue, yellow or pink. The hardest of all the gemstones, and among the most valuable. Diamonds are usually found in the northern mountains by underground races, and then traded to the surface world.

Value: 1000

 

Emerald  (MISC43)

An Emerald is a brilliant green beryl, cleaved along straight box like lines, with rectangular cutting in the finished gem. Emeralds are often connected with health, and so are used ornamentally for such a purpose.

Value: 1500

 

Fire Agate Gem  (MISC16)

Fire Agate is the name given to chalcedony which contains thin lines of iridescent goethite. When properly cut, the iridescence displays red, brown, gold, and green hues, and the finest specimens are partly translucent.

Value: 10

 

Garnet Gem  (MISC34)

Garnet is a general class of crystals ranging from deep red to violet in colour. A typical cut for this rare isometric gem is 12 to 24 sides, with the very rare 36 sides being known from time to time. It is rumored that a 48-sided garnet exists although none have ever been able to track down its location.

Value: 175

 

Glittering Beljuril Gemstone  (MISC1J)

Normally a deep, pleasant seawater green, beljurils periodically blaze with a glittering, winking, flashing light. Although this particular stone has a slightly different hue, perhaps a new strain, rarely if ever seen before. It looks incredibly valuable.

Value: 2500

 

Iol Gem  (MISC26)

Iol is actually short for Iolite (cordierite), although a common nickname is "violet stone" even though its overall hue is usually blue. Iols are usually cut into faceted gems to best display the stone's color change as it is viewed from different directions. Small, cut iols can be clear, but larger specimens usually contain silky inclusions of another substance such as hemitite crystals, which give the same rich golden flash of color as in sunstones.

Value: 40

 

Jasper Gem  (MISC23)

Jasper is an opaque quartz found in reds, browns, and blacks. Very rare specimens are blue or have bands of blue against the other colours. Jasper can be crushed and used in making potions and magical devices which protect against poison.

Value: 35

 

King's Tears  (MISC44)

King's Tears are very rare and found only in the Realms where they are sometimes called frozen tears. Clear, teardrop-shaped, smooth surfaced, and totally unbreakable so far by any means. These stones are said to be the crystallized tears of long-dead necromancer kings. In each gem can be seen that which the weeping king loved long ago. Their true nature is unknown but suffice it to say that sages prize these gems above all others.

Value: 4000

 

Lynx Eye Gem  (MISC17)

Lynx Eye is 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.

Value: 15

 

Moonbar Gem  (MISC40)

Moonbar is a pearly white, opaque gemstone, usually pale blue with green and gold mottling. Related in type to fire and black opals, but is only slightly more common.

Value: 375

 

Moonstone Gem  (MISC27)

Moonstone is an opaque, white feldspar gem polished to a bluish sheen. Old legends say that the sight of a moonstone would cause a lycanthrope to revert to his animal form. Whether or not this is true is unknown as anyone close enough to find out apparently hasn't lived to tell the tale. However moonstones have been used in spells that effect this particular curse.

Value: 50

 

Opal Stone  (MISC8W)

This stone has a certain energy about it. It may come in useful although, at this point, you aren't sure where.

Value: 0

 

Pearl  (MISC36) or (TTGEM01)

Pearls consist of layers of aragonite agonizingly formed around a bit of grit or other irritant inside oysters and other mollusks. The resulting pearl has a rich, deep luster. Most of the pearls in the realms are white, however there are varieties that are much more rare such as rainbow and black.

Value: 200

 

Rogue Stone  (DMGEM1) or (MISC45)

A small, shifting, rainbow coloured, irridecent gemstone. The fluid shades of colour appear almost liquid under normal sunlight, it is truly a beautiful sight to behold. Rogue stones are extremely rare and are used for the gemjump spell, hence one of the most sought after gems in the Realms.

Value: 5000

 

Ruby Stone  (MISC8X)

This stone has a certain energy about it. It may come in useful although, at this point, you aren't sure where.

Value: 0

 

Shandon Gem  (MISC32)

Shandon is another name for natrolite in the Realms; its slender, colorless crystals yield tiny faceted gems used often in veils and robes in order to capture the beading effect of water glistening upon the material.

Value: 90

 

Skydrop Gem  (MISC21)

Skydrop is the common name given to clear or lightly colored tektite material; fragments of glass of celestial (meteoric) origin, found in the vast shifting sands of Anauroch and other deserts.

Value: 40

 

Sphene Gem  (MISC37)

Sphene is a soft, brittle gemstone (and, like scapra, easily worked by unskilled cutters) of various yellow to green shades, the most prized of these being a fine emerald green.

Value: 225

 

Star Diopside Gem  (MISC31)

Star Diopside is the most prized form of a hard, durable gemstone that is rarely found in attractive colours. It is usually too dark for beauty, however mountain and streambed-pebble crystals of a pale green hue make attractive stones such as diopside. When a gem is found that is darker green it can be cut in such a fashion so to produce four- or six-rayed stars.

Value: 95

 

Star Sapphire  (MISC41)

Star Sapphire is a precious variation of the sapphire, however is more translucent, with a white star highlighted in its center. A star sapphire has been known to ornament devices which protect against magic.

Value: 2000

 

Star Sapphire  (TTTREAS)

Star Sapphire is a precious variation of the sapphire, however is more translucent, with a white star highlighted in its center. A star sapphire has been known to ornament devices which protect against magic.

Value: 5000

 

Sun Gem  (MISC6N)

This round and polished stone glows with a fierce light and seems to dispel the shadows around you.

Value: 45

 

Sun Gem  (MISC6O)

This round and polished stone glows with a fierce light and seems to dispel the shadows around you.

Value: 45

 

Sunstone Gem  (MISC18)

Sunstone is a feldspar jem, closely related to moonstone, and more properly known as oligoclase. Sunstone can be colorless or faintly greenish and of facet grade, but most common by far is its softer (cabochon) variety. This yields gemstones that have bright red or orange spangles (minute crystals) suspended in a nearly colorless background in a parallel fashion, giving the whole a rich golden or redish brown color.

Value: 25

 

Turquoise Gem  (MISC19)

Turquoise is an opaque aqua stone with darker mottling, and is found in the more arid reaches of the Realms. Horsemen will often place a sliver of this stone in a horse's harness as a sign of good luck.

Value: 5

 

Water Opal  (MISC39)

Water Opal is a colourless, clear opal with a play of colour. It is rare and valuable in the Realms, where it is used in scrying devices.

Value: 350

 

Waterstar Gem  (MISC28)

Waterstar is also called achroite or colourless tourmaline and is rare in the Realms. This stone is riddled with flaws and inclusions and hence only a small portion is fit for cutting.

Value: 80

 

Ziose Gem  (MISC29)

Ziose is the name given by sages to a particular facet-grade variety of ziosite; a rare mineral that yields cut stones that flash three vivid hues depending on how the light catches them; purple, blue, and red, or purple, green, and red. Very large (fist- or foot-sized) gems are found and are prized for use in pendants and brooches.

Value: 60

 

Zircon Gem  (MISC25)

Zircon is a brownish crystal found in igneous (volcanic) rocks. Zircon attains its pale blue shade with heating and cutting (usually facet-cut).

Value: 45

 

Stones

Activation Stone  (MISC4A)

This stone may be used to control the sewage golem.

Value: 0

 

Bone Wardstone  (MISC2L)

Bone Wardstone

Value: 450

 

Compass Wardstone  (MISC2K)

Compass Wardstone

Value: 450

 

Doppelganger Wardstone  (MISC2A)

The symbol carved into this weighty, granite wardstone is difficult to discern. It almost appears to flicker, as if continuously altering its silver-inlaid shape.

Value: 450

 

Dwarven Rune 1 Wardstone  (MISC2M)

Dwarven Rune 1 Wardstone

Value: 450

 

Dwarven Rune 2 Wardstone  (MISC2N)

Dwarven Rune 2 Wardstone

Value: 450

 

Islanne Wardstone  (MISC2C)

Durlag Trollkiller's Clan-Symbol is etched into this delicate ward token. The deep grooves glow with a soft red light that seems to emanate from somewhere within the stone.

Value: 450

 

Jae'llat Wardstone  (MISCBF)

This is the wardstone that will allow you access to the House Jae'llat. Without the stone, the wards make the place impenetrable.

Value: 1

 

Kiel Wardstone  (MISC2D)

Durlag Trollkiller's Clan-Symbol is etched into this rough-edged ward token. The deep grooves glow with a cold green light that seems to emanate from somewhere within the stone.

Value: 450

 

Level 1 Exit Wardstone  (MISC2B)

This wardstone will open the way to the level beneath this when placed in the well.

Value: 450

 

Level 2 Exit Wardstone  (MISC2G)

The glyph etched deep into this wardstone suggests that it is empowered to reveal a hidden passage that descends further into the dungeon's depths.

Value: 450

 

Move out men! The enemy is everywhere!  (MISC2H)

Move out men! Watch for survivors and beware of magical illusions.

Value: 150

 

Planar Stone  (MISC6T)

This is a Planar Stone, an item of some power. The gem can open a lesser conduit between the planes for those that know how to use it. However, planar travel by this means isn't as safe as spells of similar nature. Raelis Shai from the Five Flagons Tavern in the Bridge District is said to desire the gem and will reward whomever brings it to her.

Value: 0

 

Shadow Dragon Wardstone  (MISC6P)

This wardstone is a virtual area of darkness, and seems to suck the very light from space around it. The shape of the stone is hard to discern, cloaked in shadow as it is.

Value: 25

 

Teleportation Wardstone  (MISC2F)

You have seen this wardstone's haunting glyph depicted elsewhere within this Tower.

Value: 450

 

Wardstone for Asylum  (MISC8V)

This is the wardstone obtained from Perth the Adept. It should lower the wards that keep you from entering Spellhold.

Value: 0

 

Wardstone Forgery  (MISC2I)

Upon closer examination, what once looked to be a wardstone, now only appears to be a gem of mediocre value, with several symbols carved upon the outer edge. Although the forgery itself is excellent work, fooling all but the most diligent.

Value: 150

 

Wardstone Forgery  (MISC2J)

Upon closer examination, what once looked to be a wardstone, now only appears to be a gem of mediocre value, with several symbols carved upon the outer edge. Although the forgery itself is excellent work, fooling all but the most diligent.

Value: 150

 

 
 
 
 
   
 

 

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