QIRINA Ore & Mineral Risk Registry or Q-OnMRR
Purpose
The QIRINA Ore & Mineral Risk Registry was created to systematically classify, evaluate, and monitor the natural resources of the subterranean and geologic world—namely ores, minerals, rare alloys, and leystones. Unlike the other volumes of the Registry, Vol. III emerged in response to increasing fatalities, magical mishaps, and unregulated extraction of volatile or otherworldly materials. The Registry was intended to do more than name and categorize; it was built to protect.
More than a catalog, this document functions as a risk codex, identifying not just the usefulness of each material, but the dangers it presents to miners, handlers, spellcasters, and the environment. It also serves as a cornerstone for trade regulation, artifact construction, and field research policy throughout the known world.
Document Structure
Clauses
The Registry is divided into five primary columns, each entry including:
- Name: The known name or trade name of the material.
- Region: The verified or dominant location of its natural occurrence.
- Use: Practical applications, from mundane to magical, industrial to ritualistic.
- Hazard Rating: A dual-code system combining region-based danger (A–D), material-specific threat (1–5), and a five-digit binary rarity code (e.g., B - 2.00100).
- Hazard: A summary of dangers including magical volatility, toxicity, planar resonance, or psychological effect.
The Registry currently documents over 50 entries, ranging from mundane conductive ores to legendary and extraplanar materials such as Voidsteel, Eternal Ember Cores, and Baatorian Green Steel. It also includes original materials unique to Qirina’s networked territories, especially the mineral-rich lands of Accendus and the hazardous Umbral Drift.
Caveats
The Registry functions under the Accendus Accord of Material Integrity, signed jointly by Qirina and the dwarven Grand Mining Guild. Under this accord, no material with a Hazard Rating of A-1 or A-2 may be exported without a Guild-issued stability certificate, and mining operations that encounter such ores must immediately notify a Leywarden or sanctioned arcane observer.
Violation of the Registry’s risk protocols is classified as a Tier II Industrial Offense and may result in seizure of goods, revocation of mining rights, or magical interdiction.
Additionally, materials flagged as Legendary rarity (0.10000) are required to be logged in the Velvet-Lumen Annex before refinement or resale. Materials of unknown origin or unstable essence are temporarily classified under the “Violet Lock” clause, forbidding their usage until properly assessed.
Publication Status
The Registry is available in both print and arcane-inscribed form, with abbreviated versions distributed to licensed miners, alchemists, and smithies. All Guild-affiliated mines must display the relevant excerpt of the Registry at the point of entry, while arcane universities and leyline research halls are required to maintain an up-to-date version on-site.
Due to its utility and thoroughness, the Registry is seen as the gold standard for mineral classification, surpassing older, localized documents and dwarf-hall ledgers by unifying them into a single global text. Even the isolationist dwarves of Accendus view the Registry as a point of cultural pride—referred to among their own as the Hammerbound Codex.
Legal status
While the document itself is maintained by Qirina, all risk designations and threat classifications were developed in collaboration with the Deepstone Council of Accendus, a multi-clan dwarven conclave representing the world’s most experienced subterranean miners, arcane metallurgists, and rune-smiths.
The Deepstone Council holds a permanent review seat on the Qirinan Review Board for Vol. III, ensuring that dwarven expertise continues to shape the standard globally.
Historical Details
Background
The origins of Vol. III are deeply tied to the Ironfire Collapse, where an unregistered deposit of Pyrocite ignited subterranean gases, killing over two hundred dwarves and obliterating half a mountain pass. In response, the Accendus Guild refused to open further veins unless proper documentation and standardized classification could be agreed upon.
Qirina stepped in to broker this alliance, offering its arch-scribes, leyfield researchers, and magical analysts to work alongside dwarven geosmiths and mine-seers. What followed was a five-year collaborative effort, producing what is now the most robust mineral registry in recorded history.
Public Reaction
Reception to Vol. III has been universally positive among scientific and industrial circles. The dwarves of Accendus celebrate its existence through the Festival of Flame and Ore, where excerpts are etched into molten steel and paraded through mining tunnels.
Among miners, the Registry is seen as both a shield and a map—a way to work smarter and survive longer. Among mages, it is regarded with equal parts reverence and caution, especially for entries dealing with planar materials like Void Crystals or Eclipsium.
Its clarity, credibility, and continual revision cycle have made it an indispensable tool for every smithy, refinery, and leyforge in civilized lands.
Legacy
The publication of Vol. III radically altered the global ore economy. It standardized pricing, outlawed certain exploitative extractions, and gave rise to new professions such as hazard miners, essence weavers, and ritual refiners. It also inspired a wave of public reclamation projects, removing dangerous materials from collapsed mines and forgotten ruins.
Culturally, it deepened the diplomatic bond between Qirina and Accendus, whose people now view the Registry not only as a scientific document but as a testament to dwarven excellence in metallurgy and risk management.
Term
The QIRINA Ore & Mineral Risk Registry remains in perpetual effect, reviewed and updated every quarter through the Velvet-Lumen Annex. Addenda are appended as new materials are discovered or reassessed, ensuring the document remains a living text, adapting to both planar discovery and technological innovation.
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