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Patrick Lawrence's avatar

I loved this. Didn’t know I needed it til I started reading it. Well done.

Whistling in the Dark - aka Ty's avatar

Excellent article 👏

Trey Roque's avatar

Gandalf alludes to fell beasts deep in the bowels of Middle Earth. Maybe the stone is a bezoar from one of them?

Randall Hayes's avatar

A marvelous confection of deep nerdic lore. Well done!

Neal Stephenson had an online game in REAMDE that incorporated virtual plate tectonics into its worldbuilding. Never made it through that book.

A Linc's avatar

I found this entire article to be fascinating reading. Bravo!

Del Cross v's avatar

Very interesting! I always thought that it was a chunk of quartz or diamond mixed with radium or with radium inside. Need something to make it glow by itself, as that's how I imagined it. 😊