Sapphire Star

Son of Witz · 01 Jan 2009, 03:38 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:38:51 -0800
Subject: (urth) Sapphire Star
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yeah. if we're gonna imagine it's origin, we might as well guess  
someone used the corridors to plant it back long  enough for the  
crystal to grow around it, then show up to harvest it. :D
~

On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:50 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:

> Actually, I have always preferred to think of the Claw as a real  
> sapphire. The thorn would have had to have somehow been subjected to  
> geological forces and times. But I prefer this only because that  
> would make it an unfathomable miracle, which seems appropriate.
> Hiero technology is of course another viable approach, but one that  
> makes the whole Conciliator thing a complete charade---don't look at  
> the little man behind the curtain.
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> How do you all picture this thing?
> I imagined it as rough cut crystal until Urth showed it's origin in   
> the Thorn.  with that in mind, I figure it would be a synthetic   
> enclosure, and as such would NOT look like it was mined from the   
> earth, rather it would probably be smooth or with faceted cuts.   
> It's  described as about the size of an orichalk.  Do you see it as  
> round?   Do you see it as the shape of the thorn + the thickness of  
> the  crystal.  It's weird because most of us probably developed  
> mental  images before the thorn aspect was emphasized.  I figure it  
> would be  shaped like a crystal smilodon tooth.
>
> ??
> ~SonOfWitz
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