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  • Blots of darker heartstone marked other islands amid the tongues of yellow flame.

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  • Then Dwvon realized he lay atop another plug of nirrin in the heartstone.

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  • He could neither descend through the fountain nor tunnel through the heartstone around it.

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  • "There's enough heartstone here to carve into a thousand swords."

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  • "But you must have found pieces of heartstone you could cut with before," said Redburr.

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  • The only thing he didn't mention was that the henge was made of heartstone.

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  • "Inach is heartstone in the human tongue," Nolo answered.

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  • He caught at the heartstone to catch himself; but the heartstone was stronger than Dwvon, and his fingers could not pierce it.

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  • The trip to Malmoret would still be planned, and the swords the Dwarves would fashion from the heartstone in the henges would need strong arms to wield them.

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  • Slowly he worked his way deeper into the rock until at last he came to a place where the heartstone itself was riven.

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  • A fictional artifact common in dragon-related stories of high fantasy. It is a crystal of concentrated magic, and can be extracted from the heart of a slain dragon. It is believed that the heartstone is the source of a dragon's magic power, but this has never been proven definitively. Heartstones were considered a precious commodity in the Middle Ages, and were coveted for their wizard killing abilities. Generally the magnitude of a heartstone is directly related to the size of the dragon itself, though this is not always the case. (Wikipedia)

    May 23, 2008

  • "This has never been proved definitively"? Really, nobody has ever proved that?

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  • Seanahan's comment made me laugh so much at the time I was incapacitated, and therefore could not comment; finally, after four months I am able to do so.

    October 2, 2008