Auden’s Blessing
And the materials listed were absurdly extravagant.
One item alone was a Niflheim Sapphire.
This mineral existed only in Niflheim, and less than two thousand kilograms were imported into the royal capital each year. Purchases were never made in fragments—the minimum was a whole gemstone, typically no lighter than five hundred grams. Because it originated from the world of ice elements, it possessed exceptional amplification properties for frost magic, and water mages usually mounted an entire gem atop their staffs.
Yet the commission explicitly required: twenty grams of Niflheim Sapphire, twenty grams of Muspelheim Ruby, and thirty grams of Helheim Diamond, all to be embedded at the base of