Snow Diamond Ornament rests in the palm like a fragment of winter itself: a perfect six-sided diamond carved from pale ice, its facets catching light in a microstorm of frost. The surface is cool to the touch, smooth as a glacier’s breath, yet beyond the glassy sheen are fine scratches—like tiny trails left by a winter wind. A slender silver setting wraps around the gem, etched with delicate frostwork that spirals toward a tiny halo of runes. When it catches the room’s lamps, it doesn’t simply glimmer; it seems to glow from within, as if a quiet snowfall had been pressed into molten brightness. Lorekeepers whisper that the ornament was born in a cradle of ice caves, where an old winter spirit sealed a memory of a long-ago guardian—one who watched over settlers skirting the northern sea. Folks swear the diamond remembers footsteps and soft voices, if you listen long enough, you can hear the whisper of a compass needle pointing toward hope. In the world where such mementos travel from hand to hand, the Snow Diamond Ornament has a practical life as well as a tale. It’s a cosmetic jewel, designed to be attached to armor or weapons to alter appearance without changing performance. It offers a way for travelers to wear winter’s memory on their sleeves, literally, a visible pledge that their journey through bitter cold and blizzards mattered at least enough to earn a glint of this frost-lit beauty. It doesn’t alter stats or grant a power boost; its value is in story and presence. A seasoned ranger might pair it with a fur-lined cloak for a woodland ambush at dusk, while a tailor-made guardian could crown a ceremonial lance with the ornament’s quiet radiance during a winter vigil. For roleplayers, it becomes a character’s emblem: a small, portable reminder of the people and places left behind when the snow rises and the roads close. The ornament’s market life is as much a part of its myth as its frost-etched surface. I followed a thread of copper coin and whispered bartering through a crowded market alley until I found Saddlebag Exchange, a hum of traders cataloging curios and keepsakes in chipped wooden chests. There, the Snow Diamond Ornament sits among a chorus of glinting trinkets, sometimes priced in the low golds, sometimes in the mid-range, depending on season and demand. A veteran dealer told me that the true value isn’t only what a buyer pays, but the story the buyer will carry home—the memory of a winter night by a river, the moment a friend opened a gift and saw their own face reflected in a frozen facet. So the price wobbles like light on ice, and every listing becomes a little poem about someone who chose to hold on to a memory rather than let it drift away. As I walked away, the ornament cooled in its cloth pouch, the world brightening a notch with its quiet shimmer. There’s a reason people chase it, not for every-day utility but for a reminder that beauty can be weathered and preserved, that a single, cold-cut of diamond can carry warmth within its glittering heart. In a world of trials, that is a story worth wearing.