Bubblescent Glass

A unique mixture of sea glass and obsidian (volcanic) glass created exclusively in the area around Port Parahelia where the conditions to create both are right. Bubblescent Glass is typically used in jewelry, tokens, and trinkets dedicated to good luck for travelers, miners, and sailors.

Properties

Material Characteristics

Bubblescent glass is typically deep shades of cool jewel-tones reminiscint of ocean colors; the natural hues of the sea glass are tinted darker by the obsidian glass's influence. Unlike Iridite which is often produced in large sheets, Bubblescent Glass is almost always in small handheld pieces due to the rarity of the components and use in jewelry. The pieces are typically opaque and may feature frozen bubble-like craters or holes inherited from volcanic glass. They do not break easily, largely because they are typically sold in round or ovular forms for pendants or charms rather than more jagged pieces, but they can scratch. (These scratches can be buffed out with a gentle cloth dipped in saltwater.) The glass is typically wrapped in wire or embedded into jewelry as a cabachon rather than drilled through to prevent risk of shattering or damage.

Origin & Source

Created through smelting together high quality sea glass and volcanic glass in a method known only to artisans in the Port Parahelia area of southwest Ostelliach. The temperatures and process for manipulating the glasses to get them to merge and mingle properly is notably tricky; reject pieces are often sold at a discount, and though they are still pretty, they are notably just pieces made of two types of glass, not this rare unique fusion.
The volcanic glass comes from the nearby Chained Forge's influence, and the sea glass is found deep underwater. Rather than being discarded glass trash smoothed by the ocean's influence, the "sea glass" in Ostelliach is actually quite literally glass of the sea, produced when the churning currents and varied temperatures polish and thin certain types of rock or shell into translucent colored pieces in a process similar to the creation of hail (where moving up and down through the wind and water make a piece grow and shrink until it finally stops traveling).

Type

Glass

Color

Typically deep blues, navy, emerald green, or purples - the colors of a deep sea

Density

Extremely light, due to the volcanic rock properties