Feather gems and Sky Stones

Snow gems have always been treasured for their ornamental uses. These white gems were often traded or sold to humans and elves from dwarves who mined and cut them in their tunnels. It was only within the last century that their true potential was revealed.
Samantha St. Clair, a noble's young daughter was out running through town avoiding her duties and causing mischief with the neighborhood boys. Having discarded her expensive dress and shoes with trousers, boots, and an oversized shirt, the only sign that she was not another street urchin was the snow stone that adorned the necklace she wore.
The children dashed through the streets, jostling past their elders and ignoring their curses. The boys reached the country side by hopping over fences and brick walls that Samantha struggled to scramble over. The boys left her behind and continued toward a farm where they planned to amuse themselves by throwing stones at the farmer's dog that was chained to a post.
Samantha sat down, defeated, and occupied herself with scraping a blue chalk like stone onto a boulder, writing "boys are block heads". She continued adding more colorful names to the boys until they dashed past her towards town in a panic. Hot on their heels was the farmer’s dog, dragging an uprooted post behind it.
Samantha, stone still in hand, scrambled to her feet and ran after the boys, who had climbed on to an old storage shed. The girl knew she wouldn’t be able to climb it before the dog got to her, and desperately leapt at the shed. Miraculously, she bounded over the shed as if she weighed no more than a feather and crashed into the astonished boys.
Thus the supernatural properties of snow gems, now called feather gems, were discovered. The blue stone, now known as sky stone, acts as an energy source that powers a feather gem’s ability to lighten the weight of anything up to three feet away. The gem almost quadrupled in value and was eventually used to make riding pixie wyverns possible (see The Wonders of Pixie Wyverns). Sky stones (which slowly turn to dust after much use and must be replaced periodically) are tied around the neck of wyverns while riders wear a necklace with a feather gem, much like one young Samantha St. Clair did many years ago.

Type

Ore/Mineral