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Originally Posted by Icelander
Has anyone done any work in reflecting the enormous number of real world beliefs about the mystical association of gemstones in Ritual Path Magic?
How would one implement using expensive and appropriate gemstones as the material for Charms of the right kind of magic, for example?
What are gemstones appropriate for working ice magic?
Or ones associated with entropy, either accelerating or slowing it?
What gemstones have evil reputations and associations with harmful magic? And what are some cool legends and myths that explain why?
Can anyone direct me to a good source, online for free or ebook available for purchase, which collects the associations precious stones have in various traditions, ideally with fun citations to medieval lapidaries and other esoteric sources, in a clear and gamable manner?
Basically, is there anything in the least bit like a Supressed Transmission, Pyramid article or meticulously researched GURPS supplement available for gemstones and ritual magic?
Or, perhaps, simply a well written book of popular scholarship on the subject?
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Both the Hope and the Koh-I-Noor supposedly have a curse. The Hope was by one legend stolen though it could be it was more likely given (Grand Moguls don't SELL things to common merchants of course but they might give) and this offended the god whose eye it once was. The Tamil have erotic imagery around jewels which is kind of-gooey-but interesting. The Koh-I-Noor (mountain of light) was grabbed by the warlord Nadir Shah from the Mogul Muhammad "the pleasure-loving" which cognomen gives an idea of his unbellicose tastes and why he lost. When Nadir Shah died his bodyguard who was surprisingly loyal during life fled with his retinue to Afghanistan and set up on his own with some of the treasures in Nadir Shah's palace. Then it ended up in the hands of the Sikhs who had walloped the Afghans and the Brits who had walloped the Sikhs, and are you sensing a pattern?
The Koh-I-Noor has a good biography by William Dalyrmple
There is more then enough bloodshed surrounding the Koh-I-Noor to give it a whole army of ghosts.