MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2294

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2293
	by "Abigail Laughlin" <abbykat-+AT+-hotmail.com>
  2) Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2293
	by troll-+AT+-netcomuk.co.uk

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:55:52 GMT
From: "Abigail Laughlin" <abbykat-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2293
Message-ID: <20000512145552.75166.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com>

<<And wasn't Tadrith given the last name Wyrsabane?  I don't have the
second Owls books with me (Sight? Flight? I can't keep them straight)
but I think it's in there.>>

Tadrith was Tadrith Skandrakae, but yep, he got dubbed Wyrsabane.

<<<Of subject-- to rocks (the subject that seems to always go with energy 
theories)  what kind of rock do you think heartstones are made of? Blondie 
Ke'Chara ; )>>>

<<I would think quartz would be the best, quartz is just a cool stone it 
does keep timw after all, and they can be made of any stone I though, Van's 
was five with a quartz orb on top.>>

Whatever the bedrock there is, I imagine. Afterall, the abridged account of 
how Tayledras usually make one involves either using a natural formation or 
pulling the rock up from the bedrock. Quartz actuslly doesn't seem all that 
likely... the k'Sheyna heartstone and the one Vanyel encountered in 
Lineas/Baires were both fairly large, and it was noted that the one Van 
*made* was rather small. I'm no expert, but I don't think that finding a 
suitably large and solid formation of quartz would be all that likely...

Rereading the Heartstone-making sceen in LHM, I note that Van's heartstone 
is a sphere of crystal (he doesn't say what kind), fused to the stone table, 
which is fused to the floor, which is fused to the bedrock. It's not sitting 
on the focus-stones; it was created from them.

Pretty cool, huh?

Zha'hai'allav'a,
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Holy Hand of the Goddess of Elves,
Member of the Mistic Circle,
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:56:22 +0100 (BST)
From: troll-+AT+-netcomuk.co.uk
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 2293
Message-ID: <200051223576618467-+AT+-netcomuk.co.uk>

Raven said:
>Whatever the bedrock there is, I imagine. Afterall, the abridged account of 
>how Tayledras usually make one involves either using a natural formation or 
>pulling the rock up from the bedrock. Quartz actuslly doesn't seem all that 
>likely... the k'Sheyna heartstone and the one Vanyel encountered in 
>Lineas/Baires were both fairly large, and it was noted that the one Van 
>*made* was rather small. I'm no expert, but I don't think that finding a 
>suitably large and solid formation of quartz would be all that likely...

Adding in my two copper pennies here, as the list's resident geologist ;)
quartz isn't actually a rock as such...it's a mineral. Rocks are composed
of minerals. So bedrock cannot be quartz, although it can CONTAIN quartz.
Bedrock is generally igneous(granite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite)or metamorphic
(schist, gneiss). 
	"Pulling the rock up from the bedrock", as quoted above, would likely
involve heat, pressure or both...hence the resultant rock would be a
metamorphic of some kind, exact composition dependent on the original
bedrock(which could itself be already metamorphosed by a previous geological
event, perhaps far in the past). So by that definition, the Heartstone would
most likely be hornfels, schist or gneiss of some kind.
	Of course, Misty isn't a geologist, and may well not realise the
distinction between rocks and minerals herself ;) in which case she may
well have visualised the Heartstone as some crystalline mineral. The most
common crystals found in igneous/metamorphic bedrock would be quartz,
feldspars, mica, olivine and pyroxene...less common ones would include
haematite, magnetite, topaz, corundum(ruby/sapphire), and diamond. Anyone's
guess as to what Misty's visualisation of it is...

Rock-shaped sheep and sheep-shaped rocks to all,
Muranog Shadowbane
Troll Battle Mage Adept of Earth and Fire
Knight of Fluff
OIB
Member of the (dormant)Mistic Circle
Member of the Circle of Stone
and his bondmate Sable, the giant black war sheep(also OIB)

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