Color range:  From one direction appears pure white, but from another it shines with iridescent hues like those in an opal, and from a third it displays slender rainbow bands like those of rainbow quartz.

Value:  Infrequently found.

Shimmertine is mined in the lower reaches of the DragonSpine mountains by the Nalfein.

Despite its remarkable appearance, shimmertine is not used often in jewelry in the elven city-states. The upper classes consider it too gaudy, and the lower classes rarely wear it because of its fragility.

Shimmertine provides a small but distinct benefit in casting spells of all kinds. Its magical merits are dispersed evenly among the spheres of magic, affecting no one spell more than any other.

For a time, the most productive shimmertine mine in Elanthia was just outside the human city of Lolle in the Kingdom of Hendor. Regrettably, the mine was lost in 4630 when the Kingdom of Hendor fell to Issyldra, the Ice Queen. It has been impossible to determine precisely what transpired, but every vein of shimmertine remaining within the mine was magically transmuted to ice at some point during the Ice Queen’s control of the area, destroying its bounty utterly. No known shimmertine deposits are now within human control.

By human custom, giving a piece of shimmertine to someone is a sign of respect. When Emperor Perrinor Rysus first convened the Council of Lords in 4686, he presented each member of the Council with a marvelous goblet crafted from pieces of shimmertine bound together with glimmering silver wire. So cunningly made were the goblets that they were perfectly smooth to the touch despite being made from so many disparate stones. Several of the goblets have been damaged or lost since that day, but most are treasured family heirlooms or safely preserved in museums.