{"id":3413,"date":"2014-01-26T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2014-01-26T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T20:16:13","slug":"a-shortage-of-hecatolite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/a-shortage-of-hecatolite\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shortage of Hecatolite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hecatolite_moonstone_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3416\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" alt=\"hecatolite_moonstone_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hecatolite_moonstone_2-300x244.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>Hecatolite, more commonly known as moonstone, is a rare form of the mineral Feldspar, a mineral that forms from volcanic magma.\u00a0 It has long been the source of magical power, or rather protection from.\u00a0 This gemstone is surrounded by a good deal of mystique and magic. In many cultures, for example in India, it is regarded as a holy, magical gemstone. Its secrets are locked beneath a pearly veil, and with them, our own hidden truths. Only within its reflected light can we begin to understand what it has to teach us. Moonstone is foremost a talisman of the inward journey, taking one deep into the self to retrieve what is missing, the parts of the soul left behind or forgotten, then brought to light. What that is exactly is the purest form of ourselves; in essence our unspoiled selves.\u00a0 Moonstone takes one deep into the self. Often it reveals the missing piece or pieces of the puzzle of one&#8217;s life, parts of the soul that have been left behind or forgotten.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ancient Romans theorized that moonstone, with its unearthly shimmer, was formed from frozen moonlight. This appealing gem variety does shine with a cool lunar light but it is the mineral feldspar, quite terrestrial in origin.\u00a0 This gemstone was very popular once before, about a hundred years ago at the time of Art Nouveau. It adorns a noticeably large number of the jewellery creations of the French master goldsmith Ren\u00e9 Lalique and his contemporaries, mainly to be found in museums and collections today.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Traveler&#8217;s Stone for the protection it affords, especially at night, and because of its uplifting quality of hope, has long been worn as a talisman of protection against magical energies.\u00a0 Through research and development, those of us with supernatural abilities have been able to harness this power in powder form, mixing it with concrete to build and fortify construction so that no outside magic can eclipse it.\u00a0 This has served us as a magic dampener when we need to suppress the abilities we were damned or gifted with beyond our natural selves.\u00a0 It basically renders all creatures as mortal as newborn babes.<\/p>\n<p>This proved to be very useful for us, especially in the building of confinement units such as jails and other structures. But there is a hefty price that must be paid.\u00a0 In order to build such complex, and quite large, buildings we&#8217;ve had to grind quite a bit of the mineral.\u00a0 So in essence just to create a single wall, we must acquire 3.4 metric tons of the raw form of moonstone.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t do the math yourself, that&#8217;s almost 7,500 lbs.\u00a0 Up until recently that hasn&#8217;t been much of a problem.\u00a0 The side effect was that we were helping countries financially that really needed the money. But as our demand of it grew, fine moonstone has now become quite rare and becoming rarer. While it is still mined in Sri Lanka and Southern India, it is slowly becoming extinct.<\/p>\n<p>As more and more supernatural creatures are well&#8230; created&#8230; the need for such buildings has doubled.\u00a0 On Earth magic isn&#8217;t as prevalent as on Sosaria, but the need is still very much there.\u00a0 Here on this planet, since its such a close relative of Earth, we&#8217;ve searched for hecatolite quite a bit and have found nothing.\u00a0 So there must be an alternative&#8230; somewhere?\u00a0 If we cannot find hecatolite itself, then perhaps there is a mineral native to Sosaria that gives the similar result.<\/p>\n<p>Research must be done and a search must be initiated!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hecatolite, more commonly known as moonstone, is a rare form of the mineral Feldspar, a mineral that forms from volcanic magma.\u00a0 It has long been the source of magical power, or rather protection from.\u00a0 This gemstone is surrounded by a good deal of mystique and magic. 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