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Juniper Brooches

Posted by Tenebry on 06/01/20
It is rumored that upon hearing of Juniper Day, none other than Dame Ida reached out to Marquessa Rhea Acheron with a special keepsake, a juniper berry brooch. And it is known that the Marquessa had 28,561 brooches made in the same design, in five different materials. Gold for Creation, silver for Concepts, copper for the Lost, iron for the Arts and Sciences, and stygian for the Thirteenth. Dame Ida, although not primarily a jeweler, helps arrange the order, which requires a small army of Guild crafters, and focuses on the copper and iron brooches. Cufre lends her jeweler's talents to all brooches but the stygian, which she mistrusts. Felix cheerfully helps with any and all, even the bleaker metals. Ephrath also works generally, within a deep flow of meditation. And Archduchess Jaenelle puts out a general call for master jewelers throughout the Lyceum to lend their skill. Lady Lethe Tyde does similarly in her own lands.

But even when the brooches are made, they must be distribruted. Marquessa Rhea sends representatives of Aviaron's Peak out with merchant caravans, with the brooches. Lady Lethe Tyde helps with the seaborn transport. They are widely dispersed, these brooches, and end up in many hands, pinned to many cloaks, glittering reminders of Juniper's life and sacrifice and the protection and beneficence they represent.