Hello friend! I hope you're doing well.
I've been working with "Arcana Restored" to make something to charge talismans and amulets and I so far have a basic idea. I also used the whole Ayleid lore where they used starlight as a spiritual energy which means I now need to make a bowl with the constellations on the standing stones but now I have another issue.
What do I use to channel energy from Aetherius? The book mentions gold and that could colloidal gold or an actual piece of it but if I'm working on the Ayleid Praxis, especially with the whole Magnus and the Magna Ge rending holes where allows Magicka to flow into the world, then should I rather use something like a crystal?
Ooo, a thing to ponder! Sorry this took so long to get to, I was not doing well for a while there, but I'm back in business, baby!
You know, I always saw the Welkynd Stones as being analogous to clear quartz for those of us not in Nirn. For me, I've found that clear quartz is helpful for both generating and storing raw magic energy, just like the Welkynd Stones store Magicka. Even the formations of them remind me of quartz points!
In-universe, however, Welkynd Stones are made of meteoric glass. And when a meteorite hits the ground in our world, sometimes they will make things like Libyan desert glass. If you don't have access to meteorite-made glass, perhaps normal glass may also suffice? And as you said, gold is another option thanks to the book mentioning it.
So many possibilities! Thanks to my own experiences with clear quartz, I'd probably lean towards trying that first, but you'll have to let me know how your own experiments go!
~Jasper
