Silver diamond-studded waist-chain

Prize item for Hunt for History.

a silver diamond-studded waist-chain

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The chain is composed of links of braided silver. At intervals of twelve links hang small but exquisite diamonds from short lengths of tiny silver chain.

Loresong

As you sing, your mind fills with the image of a dim cavern. Within you see a fledgling grey drake, wings flecked with red. Bold and cunning, the creature dominates the other young and at length emerges from the dim underground to take flight in the bright light of day.

As you continue to sing, the image of the cavern again fills your mind. The grey drake is older now, strong and acrobatic in her flight. Her boldness does not go unnoticed by an old black drake, huge and brutal in nature. He has at last found a female that suits him.

As you continue to sing, the image of the mountains fills your mind. You see the grey drake soaring in a brilliant sky around a cloud-wreathed peak, where pockets of ice glisten like diamonds. She leaps in and out of the clouds, glorying in her skill and beauty. She does not see the outcropping which juts from a cloud. It is her undoing. Dashed on the great, jutting rock her broken body falls with a thundering crash into the forest of pines below. The black drake arrives, only to see her die. In the fury of his grief he calls forth a great bolt of lightning upon the rocky outcrop, shattering it and showering the forest in a hail of stone.

As you finish your song, the image of a pine forest fills your mind. You see emerging from beneath a wing of the grey drake, a newborn Arkati, lithe and lovely. The black drake lowers his head to face her. In his anguish he could snap his jaws around her, but in her expression, in her luminous ruby-flecked grey eyes, he sees that which he had seen in the bold face of the grey drake. Unafraid, she returns his gaze only with curiosity. He responds with a blast of steam from his nostrils, which settles upon her form and condenses into a grey velvet gown edged in ruby. He proclaims her Eor ail'Giina, the name by which he had known his chosen.

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