The Watcher’s Defence

The Stones

The Crystal Directory

Twenty-four stones from a thousand years of unbroken tradition.

Marbodus of Rennes wrote his De Lapidibus in 1067. Pliny the Elder wrote a thousand years before him. The Book of Talismans synthesised the tradition in 1922. The editors hold all three for every stone where they overlap.

The Lapidary Stones

What the Old Writers Recorded

Marbodus of Rennes wrote De Lapidibus around 1067. Pliny had written of the same stones a thousand years earlier, and the Book of Talismans mapped them to the zodiac. These are their entries.

The Modern Stones

Stones the Present Age Reaches For

The lapidary writers above worked from a fixed list. The stones below entered common use later, some of them centuries later. Where an older source records the same stone under a different name, the entry says so.

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