Gems

Andar Gem

Andar is hard and durable, yielding translucent gems ("Andars") that flash green-red or brown-red when properly faceted.

Value: 30

Aquamarine Gem

Aquamarine is a hard, transparent form of beryl, blue-green in colour. These sought after gems are found primarily in the barbarian tribes that roam the northern tundra.

Value: 150

Black Opal

Black Opal has a greenish hue with black mottling and gold flecks. Usually found in ancient hot springs, the gem is tumbled smooth and cut cabochon. The phrase in the north "Black as an opal" is used as a subtle form of praise for kind-hearted rogues and the like.

Value: 300

Bloodstone Gem

Bloodstone is a dark greenish gray variety of quartz flecked with red crystal impurities. Ninety percent of the bloodstones in the Realms come from the Galena Mountains in Damara, and most of those from a single mine in Bloodstone Pass. The border pass is heavily fortified and guarded as bloodstones are the chief export for this region.

Value: 50

Chrysoberyl Gem

Chrysoberyl is a hard, transparent, green gem which is usually facet- cut. It is said that Chrysoberyl has ties to the outer planes and hence its use with battling demonic possession and the undead.

Value: 70

Diamond

Diamond is a hard clear gem which can be clear blue-white, rich blue, yellow or pink. The hardest of all the gemstones, and among the most valuable. Diamonds are usually found in the northern mountains by underground races, and then traded to the surface world.

Value: 1000

Elisia's Token of Faith

These clear, teardrop shaped gems streamed from Elisia's hands like water when you asked for a physical token of her good intentions. The gems seem to ripple in the light, and their color reminds you of Elisia's skin.

Value: 30

Emerald

An Emerald is a brilliant green beryl, cleaved along straight box like lines, with rectangular cutting in the finished gem. Emeralds are often connected with health, and so are used ornamentally for such a purpose.

Value: 1500

Fire Agate Gem

Fire Agate is the name given to chalcedony which contains thin lines of iridescent goethite. When properly cut, the iridescence displays red, brown, gold, and green hues, and the finest specimens are partly translucent.

Value: 10

Garnet Gem   

Garnet is a general class of crystals ranging from deep red to violet in colour. A typical cut for this rare isometric gem is 12 to 24 sides, with the very rare 36 sides being known from time to time. It is rumored that a 48-sided garnet exists although none have ever been able to track down its location.

Value: 175

The Heartstone Gem

A large, amber colored gem the size of a child's head. The Heartstone Gem is allegedly a Silvanite artifact that used to rest in the town of Kuldahar. It reputedly has great powers of divination, but you have no idea how to use it.

Value: 0

Horn Coral Gem   

Horn Coral, which is also called night coral, is a deep black coral, similar to angel's skin save for its solid color. It is incredibly difficult to work with, and is used in jewelry as a polished twig or branch of material, or is cut cabochon.

Value: 125

Iol Gem

Iol is actually short for Iolite (cordierite), although a common nickname is "violet stone" even though its overall hue is usually blue. Iols are usually cut into faceted gems to best display the stone's color change as it is viewed from different directions. Small, cut iols can be clear, but larger specimens usually contain silky inclusions of another substance such as hemitite crystals, which give the same rich golden flash of color as in sunstones.

Value: 40

Jasper Gem   

Jasper is an opaque quartz found in reds, browns, and blacks. Very rare specimens are blue or have bands of blue against the other colours. Jasper can be crushed and used in making potions and magical devices which protect against poison.

Value: 35

King's Tears

King's Tears are very rare and found only in the Realms where they are sometimes called frozen tears. Clear, teardrop-shaped, smooth surfaced, and totally unbreakable so far by any means. These stones are said to be the crystallized tears of long-dead necromancer kings. In each gem can be seen that which the weeping king loved long ago. Their true nature is unknown but suffice it to say that sages prize these gems above all others.

Value: 4000

Knucklehead Trout

A knucklehead trout. Found only in the lakes of Icewind Dale, the bones of these enormous fish yield precious scrimshaw that is used to make elegant carvings and sculptures.

Value: 50

Lynx Eye Gem

Lynx Eye is a specific type of labradorite (a feldspar gemstone). Labradorite as a class of stones is pale to dark gray and has patches of colored reflections. This "flash" is most commonly blue but can be of all shades. "Green flash" labradorite is called lynx eye in the Realms.

Value: 15

Moonbar Gem

Moonbar is a pearly white, opaque gemstone, usually pale blue with green and gold mottling. Related in type to fire and black opals, but is only slightly more common.

Value: 375

Moonstone Gem

Moonstone is an opaque, white feldspar gem polished to a bluish sheen. Old legends say that the sight of a moonstone would cause a lycanthrope to revert to his animal form. Whether or not this is true is unknown as anyone close enough to find out apparently hasn't lived to tell the tale. However moonstones have been used in spells that effect this particular curse.

Value: 50

Pearl

Pearls consist of layers of aragonite agonizingly formed around a bit of grit or other irritant inside oysters and other mollusks. The resulting pearl has a rich, deep luster. Most pearls in the realms are white, but there are rarer varieties, such as rainbow and black.

Value: 200

Rogue Stone

A small, shifting, rainbow coloured, irridecent gemstone. The fluid shades of colour appear almost liquid under normal sunlight, it is truly a beautiful sight to behold. Rogue stones are extremely rare and are used for the gemjump spell, hence one of the most sought after gems in the Realms.

Value: 5000

Shandon Gem

Shandon is another name for natrolite in the Realms; its slender, colourless crystals yield tiny faceted gems used often in veils and robes in order to capture the beading effect of water glistening upon the material.

Value: 90

Skydrop Gem

Skydrop is the common name given to clear or lightly colored tektite material; fragments of glass of celestial (meteoric) origin, found in the vast shifting sands of Anauroch and other deserts.

Value: 40

Sphene Gem

Sphene is a soft, brittle gemstone (and, like scapra, easily worked by unskilled cutters) of various yellow to green shades, the most prized of these being a fine emerald green.

Value: 225

Star Diopside Gem

Star Diopside is the most prized form of a hard, durable gemstone that is rarely found in attractive colours. It is usually too dark for beauty, however mountain and streambed-pebble crystals of a pale green hue make attractive stones such as diopside. When a gem is found that is darker green it can be cut in such a fashion so to produce four- or six-rayed stars.

Value: 95

Star Saphire

Star Sapphire is a precious variation of the sapphire, however is more translucent, with a white star highlighted in its center. A star sapphire has been known to ornament devices which protect against magic.

Value: 2000

Sunstone Gem

Sunstone is a feldspar gem, closely related to moonstone, and more properly known as oligoclase. Sunstone can be colorless or faintly greenish and of facet grade, but most common by far is its softer (cabochon) variety. This yields gemstones that have bright red or orange spangles (minute crystals) suspended in a nearly colorless background in a parallel fashion, giving the whole a rich golden or redish brown color.

Value: 25

Tchazar Gem   

Tchazar is the common name given to aragonite, a straw-yellow gemstone found in elongated, prism-shaped crystal form. It is soft and fragile, and requires skilled cutting to yield faceted gems.

Value: 35

Turquiose Gem

Turquoise is an opaque aqua stone with darker mottlings, and is found in the more arid reaches of the Realms. Horsemen will often place a sliver of this stone in a horse's harness as a sign of good luck.

Value: 5

Water Opal

Water Opal is a colourless, clear opal with a play of colour. It is rare and valuable in the Realms, where it is used in scrying devices.

Value: 350

Waterstar Gem

Waterstar is also called achroite or colourless tourmaline and is rare in the Realms. This stone is riddled with flaws and inclusions and hence only a small portion is fit for cutting.

Value: 80

Ziose Gem

Ziose is the name given by sages to a particular facet-grade variety of ziosite; a rare mineral that yields cut stones that flash three vivid hues depending on how the light catches them; purple, blue, and red, or purple, green, and red. Very large (fist- or foot-sized) gems are found and are prized for use in pendants and brooches.

Value: 60

Zircon Gem

Zircon is a brownish crystal found in igneous (volcanic) rocks. Zircon attains its pale blue shade with heating and cutting (usually facet-cut).

Value: 45