[RPM] Gem Lore, Lapidaries and Precious Stones as Traditional Trappings

Icelander · 02-12-2020, 05:22 PM

Does anyone have any ideas as to which minerals or precious stones might be useful for rituals cast by the Keepers of the Last Hearth, an apocalyptic cult using a specialized loss-based version of the Path of Nonexistance and worshiping the Lords of the Last Waste (or the Cold Ones), vast, cool and unsympathetic intelligences existing Outside of this universe, associated with the end of everything, cold, dark, death and loss?

I've had them using diamonds, which are pretty much universal RPM 'manastones' in my campaign, but what other gemstones might they favor?

And, as for those cultists who were previously magicians in different traditions, such as Chinese Gu or Gong Tau or various Indigenous South American traditions, what are good minerals or gemstones to associate with different kinds of dark magic?

Onyx and obsidian seem obvious. What else?

02-12-2020, 05:22 PM	#16
Icelander Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Iceland*	Gemstones Useful for Evil Cultists Does anyone have any ideas as to which minerals or precious stones might be useful for rituals cast by the Keepers of the Last Hearth, an apocalyptic cult using a specialized loss-based version of the Path of Nonexistance and worshiping the Lords of the Last Waste (or the Cold Ones), vast, cool and unsympathetic intelligences existing Outside of this universe, associated with the end of everything, cold, dark, death and loss? I've had them using diamonds, which are pretty much universal RPM 'manastones' in my campaign, but what other gemstones might they favor? And, as for those cultists who were previously magicians in different traditions, such as Chinese Gu or Gong Tau or various Indigenous South American traditions, what are good minerals or gemstones to associate with different kinds of dark magic? Onyx and obsidian seem obvious. What else? __________________ Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!