Iron Eye Coins

iron Eye coin from The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
iron Eye coin

Iron is the most precious substance in the Three Lands—obtainable only from meteorites, or so it is believed—and for this reason is made into these Eye coins, a currency used exclusively among the Chosen. Such a coin represents, in its substance, in the colour of its rust and the smell it leaves on the fingers when handled—blood. A single coin has the value of a child from the flesh tithe. Mostly, these coins are used to pay the price for a Chosen bride, or for sexual access to a Chosen woman, in the hope of obtaining a Chosen child who will share the blood purity of its mother and who can be taken into the House of the purchaser.

Because these coins have been cast over many centuries, they vary considerably in design.

stone dance of the chameleon iron eye coins

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The Wise

a Sapient of the Wise

The Wise are the third Power of the Great Balance. It is they who administer the Commonwealth as well as enforcing the statutes of the Law-that-must-be-obeyed.

Their power is obtained at the cost of terrible mutilations:

“They are in our world only by their skin. When they have achieved the highest wisdom allowed to those with eyes and ears, they are locked away. Eyes are sliced out, like a stone from a peach. The red spirals of their hearing are cored from their heads and the fleshy shells shorn off. Caustic inhalations destroy their smelling, and afterwards the useless meat of their nose is discarded. Their tongues are harvested like the saffron of a crocus. Once his mutilations are complete, a Sapient is left only feet and hands as the primary organs of his perception. Remote from seductive sensation, they can be entrusted with the deeper secrets. In the caverns of their cool, uncluttered minds they measure the currents of our vast world minutely” quote from The Chosen.

Their hands appear cloven from the removal of the knuckle and middle finger of each hand, so that when they splay their hands, they automatically make the ‘sign of the horns’

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