Equipment and Wealth

Gold is just a metal in Eldriloch. What everyone wants is fibrolite, and the coin that crosses every border is glim: fibrolite chips cracked in the cutting or the mining. A cracked chip can never hold an aetheric pattern again, so it's useless to an engineer, but it still glows faintly in the dark, it can't be made anywhere but the Fiend's Chasm, and there is never quite enough of it. That makes it money.

The rules list every price in glim. A glim (gl) is a cracked chip about the size of a fingernail. It breaks into ten slivers (sv), and a sliver into ten pinches of grit (gr), sold in twists of paper. Prices in the core rules convert directly: read gold pieces as glim, silver as slivers and copper as grit.

Testing Glim. Real glim gives off a faint blue glow in darkness. Painted glass doesn't. A DC 10 Appraise check, or a moment in a dark pocket, tells them apart. Ashen can feel real glim by touch.

National Money. Every nation except Ethon still uses its own currency, and accepts glim at an exchange rate set by its government. Changing money costs the fee shown below. Characters can pay in glim or in local money, whichever they're carrying. The Game Master can ignore exchange entirely for a simpler game.

Selling. As in the core rules, adventurers can sell gear for half its listed price, and trade goods (including working fibrolite) for full value. Glim is money, and is never discounted.

Where Things Are Sold. Not every market sells everything. The table below shows what each region will sell openly. Anything a region won't sell can usually be found on the under-market, at one and a half times the listed price, with a DC 15 Gather Information check and a day of asking around.

The Covenant and Machines. The Celestial Covenant discourages aetheric manipulation but accepts engineered equipment (see The Covenant and the Aether). Everything in this chapter is lawful in Covenant eyes, as long as it's carried, not grafted. A device set into a body is heresy, no matter what it does.

Sullied and Sovereigni. Shops in Sovereigni districts may refuse Sullied customers outright, or charge them double. Sullied shops won't refuse a Sovereigni, but the price tends to rise when one walks in.