GEMS OF TAMRIEL (incomplete)

Jewelry and Ornamental Thoughts

OTHER THINGS:
Bone as jewelry: I imagine this to be practiced in both Nibenay and Valenwood, in which small bones or pieces of bone are carved and etched and/or polished to make rings or beads or other items.
Chitinous items as jewelry: Within non-human lands (and as an uncommon semi-precious thing in nibenay), it is fairly common to use treated and cured pieces of iridescent chitins within jewelry or as other ornamentation.
Colored Glass: In places like high rock or Summurset seen as cheap pauper jewelry or ornamentation to use for the sake of theater, but in places like Nibenay and Elsweyr seen as genuinely beautiful, and very well made glass jewelry is treated with the esteem of semi-preciousness.  In Valenwood its also appreciated genuinely by common bosmer, who see it as pretty much the exact same as carrying a fancy transparent stone around your neck, except in this instance you don't have to trade your damn weight in pelts for it.  A variation also is nibenese goldstone, which is colored glass filled with little specks of crystalline copper.


Celestine: An normally un-noteworthy material other than some alchemical properties, gem quality celestine can be found and used on Summurset for its delicate blue color.
Clinohumite: A volcanic material, that can be found in gem quality within morrowind, where it is used as a precious stone.
Dioptase: Found in Hammerfell and Elsweyr, a semi-precious blue-green stone used occasionally to highlight or as a potential centerpoint for something like a lower class ring, not used extensively outside the provinces where it is found.
Helenite: One of Morrowind's many forms of volcanic glass used ornamentally, a bright blue crystal.  Mostly used solely in morrowind.
Iolite: A look alike to sapphire found in Valenwood and southern Elsweyr, known especially for difficulty to cut due to the way its imperfections occur.  Not widely used as a precious stone, and more as a cheap low worth 'substitute' stone in those places that is occasionally exported.  Gem quality version of a non gem material, Cordierite.
Jacinth: Found in Summerset, Valenwood, Cyrodiil, Hammerfell, High Rock, and Morrowind.  Valued as a semi-precious stone and used across Tamriel for its bright orange color.
Lapis Lazuli: Found in Hammerfell and Summurset, where it is a valued ornamental material.  It as well is imported to High Rock, Cyrdoiil, and southern elven lands.
Kyanite: Found all over Tamriel occassionally within deposits of gneiss or schist or quartz, and not a traditional gemstone; though in some parts of High Rock and Hammerfell both it is used as a semi-precious stone.
Larimar/Pectolite: A rich opaque blue stone found throughout the Abecean and its islands, prized by Altmer and utilized as a semi-precious stone by Bretons and Redguards and Nibenese, who commonly purchase it from Colovians.
Malachite: Not the kind that goes into glass (god skyrim's deciding to call that shit malachite was fucking stupid).  The green banded stone, rather, found across western Tamriel in High Rock, Skyrim, Hammerfell, Colovia, Valenwood, Elsweyr, and Summerset is the one being discussed here.  Especially valued as an ornamental stone by Bretons, Imperials, Redguards, and Southern Mer.  Not extremely rare, but certainly uncommon.
Moonstone: Not the kind that goes into elven armor, but the bluish milky stone that seems to glow cloudily from within.  Precious, found in deposits in Skyrim, High Rock, Colovia, Valenwood, Summerset, and Elsweyr, and used in each of those locations.  In Elsweyr especially, it is considered holy.
Nacre: used semipreciously across Tamriel, for the same reasons as Pearl.
Nuummite: an iridescent stone found solely upon the isle of Roscrea, an extremely exotic rare precious stone within the empire.
Obsidian: found speckled wherever the dawn was volcanic, but found in greatest concentrations in Hammerfell, Morrowind, and Black Marsh, commonly used in all three places; it is also seen as an exotic and strange desired stone within the Nibenay and in High Rock.
Papagoite: a vivid blue stone found with quartz, found only in Hammerfell and used by Redguards.
Pargasite: a precious volcanic stone that comes greens, used by the Dunmer.
Pearl: often simply semi-precious, but the finest are considered precious and extremely valuable.  Formed by mollusks of a variety of kinds and species, from ones very earthly to strange creatures in the rivers of places like Morrowind.  Though found essentially in every body of water in Tamriel, most pearls are merely minor ornaments, and the ones that are on the level of diamonds and rubies in preciousness are extremely rare.  Utilized by just about every people of Tamriel.
Peridot: Scattered throughout Hammerfell, Colovia, High Rock, Skyrim, Morrowind, within the Valus, and volcanic Abecean islands, gem quality Olivine is found in a number of select locations throughout these provinces.  Used as a precious stone primarily by the people of those lands, as well as by Bretons and the Nibenese.
Petoskey Stones: Fossilized Coral from waters and shores surrounding southern and eastern Tamriel, used primarily by elves and khajiit.
Prehnite: A cloudy green stone found solely in Hammerfell, used as a mid-precious stone by Bretons and Redguards
Sapphirine: Found all across Tamriel in rare and disparate deposits, a cloudy blue precious stone utilized ornamentally.
Scheelite: Found across Northern Tamriel, used as a moderately precious stone by Bretons, Nords, and Dunmer.
Serendibite: exotic and rare stone found only in Valenwood, used among Altmer, Bosmer, Khajiit, and on occasion Imperials; a smoky black jewel, that shows green or blue or gold with an internal gleam when the light shines upon it right.
Sphalerite: Found across northern Tamriel, but primarily used in jewelry by Dunmer.  By osmosis it occasionally pops up in use in Skyrim and Cyrodiil, though infrequently.
Sunstone: Pretty much exclusively nordic moderately precious stone.  Not very widely used outside of Skyrim.  As its name implies, it's associated with Magnar/Magnus, and was once a relatively favored stone by clever men, among others.
Tanzanite: Found nearly entirely within Hammerfell, used as a precious stone by Redguards and via import by Colovians and Bretons as well.
Thulite: Nordic semiprecious found almost wholly in Skyrim, sometimes used by nibennic cyro-nords amongst their semi-precious stones as well.
Topaz: Found throughout the Valus and Jerall both, and used traditionally by Nibenese and Nordic nobility, as well as by Dunmer and Argonians.  Also native in northeastern Hammerfell, and used throughout there.  By cultural osmosis it has spread to the bretons as well, but it is not native to the rock.
Tourmaline: Found in deposits in High Rock and throughout summurset, an especially Altmeri gem, especially when multi-hued, though also used by the bretons both because of location and because of direnni emulation, adopted a bit as well by northern Forebears.
Turquoise: Found deposited throughout Hammerfell, patches of colovia, patches of Valenwood, edges of Bollish High Rock, tiny concentrations in southern Skyrim, in small deposits across southern Tamriel, and found in significant amounts in Black Marsh.  Utilized across Tamriel as a rare and precious stone, but used and valued especially by Nibenese, Elves, Redguards, and Argonians.
Wood Opal: Opalized ancient wood found in petrified forests in parts of Valenwood and occasionally in Colovia, and used by Bosmeri and Khajiit.
Xenotime: A rare reddish-yellow stone found only on Summerset, where it is used.



Weird elf stones?:Dumortierite, Eudialyte, Lepidolite, Rhodonite, Seraphinite, Spectrolite, Sugilite, Titanite, Variscite, Vesuvianite, Wavellite