Feystone

A water-element feystone.

Feystones (魔石, maseki) are gemstones that consist of crystalized mana.

In their natural state, feystones can be used to channel and store mana. Alternatively, they can be processed to create potions and magic tools. Special types of feystones can be used for transportation.

Overview

When a being - be it plant or animal - that can wield mana dies, its mana gathers in a single spot, crystalizes, and turns into a gem-like object. Depending on which mana-source was turned into a feystone, their specific characteristics can differ.

Different stones can be used to drain, transfer, and store mana, can be turned into magical objects via a spell like a Highbeast or Ordonanz, or can be used to create magic tools.

Feystones can differ drastically in size from those similar to pebbles to others larger than a watermelon, though the latter seem to be very rare. How much mana can be contained in a feystone depends on both the size and the quality of the stone.

While feystones aren't anything too special within Yurgenschmidt's borders, the same can not be said about other countries. There feystones are either exceptionally rare, or do not occur naturally at all. For this reason they are highly coveted, wherever Yurgenschmidt's country gates are open. Even the smallest feystones, harvestable by commoners, that are considered nearly useless by Yurgenschmidt's nobility can achive high prices when exported to other countries.

Usage

Highbeast

Ferdinand's highbeast

Highbeasts are the primary means of transportation used by nobles. By dyeing a specially prepared feystone with one's own mana, it can be morphed into the shape of an animal, that will move according to the user's will and fly through the air. The changes are according to the user's imagination.

See Highbeast

Proposal Feystone

These stones, also refered to as Engagement Feystones, are specially prepared feystones that, as the name implies, are given when one noble proposes to another. This, however, is not their only use, since they can also be give for more casual relationships or to request escorts for the graduation ceremony at the Royal Academy. The more elements and the more mana capacity a stone has, the higher its perceived quality. It is absolutely required for the stone to have all the elements that the intended recipient has affinities for and for the stone to be made from the colour of the giver's birth season.

The quality one should aim for is dependant on which purpose one wants to use such a stone for. For actual marriage proposals, it is highly advisable to gift the highest possible quality stone one is able to obtain by their own means.

Crafting of proposal feystones is taught at the Royal Academy in the second year curriculum during the class of basic brewing and crafting.

Storage

Feystones can be used to store mana and can be used when needed in the future. If you exceed the feystone's capacity, it turns into gold dust. The feystones come in different qualities, which means they can store different amounts of mana; the higher the quality, the more expensive a feystone is.

In the same sense, feystones, usually in the form of a magic tool, are used to drain any overflowing mana from noble children that can not yet contain or compress their mana. This was seen when the overflowing mana from Dirk was drained with a feystone.

Black Feystone

Black feystones drain mana of any source they come into contact with. The draining will only stop if the target is completely empty, the contact is severed, or the stone is fully saturated, at which point the stone is destroyed. Unlike with other feystones, it is not possible for a mana wielding being to cut off the mana-flow on their own, without severing physical contact with the stone or stopping whichever ranged application of mana they are performing, like the Crushing. Only by incorporating them into a magic tool can black feystone be made to only drain excess mana and thus completely save for use, even by children. Among other things they are used to create the magic tools that drain noble children's excess mana to prevent it from harming their young bodies.

Magic Tools

Magic Tools (魔術具, Majutsugu) are tools with magical properties made by nobles. They can be created either by embedding feystones in other constructs, or by blending the magical materials together in a mixing pot.

See Magic Tools

Feystone Acquisition

Feystones can be acquired by slaying feybeasts or feyplants, as well as infusing certain fruits or eggs from these beings with your mana. One such example are Riesefalke eggs, which can be turned into feystones rich in Leidenschaft's blue mana. Even commoners can acquire feystones by slaying weak feybeasts, like Shumil. There is a store on the west side in Ehrenfest's lower city which buys feystones. There is also a way to turn mana-wielding Humans into feystones.

Trivia

• Commoners call feystone either mana crystals or magic stones.
• Rozemyne - when she was given a feystone and started to learn to expand the feystone, makes it into a balloon and as it grows bigger and bigger, she imagines it popping which it does. Ferdinand is quite annoyed as the stone is very valuable, but to his surprise, she changes what she has in her hands in to clay and goes around picking up the bits back together, which shocks him and he calls a halt to the lesson.