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Originally Posted by Icelander
What might be a particularly evocative and interesting way to work meteoric iron into jewelry or ritual paraphernalia that is mystically significant to a magical tradition of loss and endings?
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Not specific to meteoric iron, but it occurs to me that, as an ouroboros is often considered a symbol of eternity, a
skeletal ouroboros may be good to represent an end to eternity, or even an eternal death. Plus, it would look f***ing
metal. A bit of Google searching reveals, unsurprisingly, that
I'm hardly the first to think of that interpretation (although your cultists are probably more likely to use a snake or human skull design than something that looks to have come from
Alien, I'd think). A part of the Alchoboros' description also indicates something with the Greek letter
omega could be appropriate (probably best for your New Age-type members, I'd think, as I don't recall you having any cultists with significant links to Greece). A
broken ouroboros, infinity sign, ankh, etc could also work.
Thinking of how to possibly appropriate the omega concept to the other cultist's culture made me realize your Chinese cultists (and possibly the Japanese-American leader of the New Age-types) probably have some thematic connection to the number "4" with their mystical paraphernalia, as that's often considered to be an unlucky number associated with death in those cultures (indeed, I know in Japanese one of the pronunciations for the number is a homophone for "death," and I believe this is also the case in at least some Chinese dialects).