Daughter of Ivory
Dec. 30th, 2018 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
persianpenname2nd character idea: Fairly newly-created ivory golem
There has to be a reason all this ivory is being stockpiled, and let's go with this. Big-ass chunks of ivory are cut and polished and fitted together into graceful ivory girls, brought to life by some form of magic (maybe why you need specifically dragon ivory?) (maybe the "better" forms of ivory are the ones that are most magic-dense?), both to show off one's wealth and to have a Fancy Immortal Servant to take care of the delicate wimminfolk or something.
In the past, I feel like these guys would have had some Solid Practical Reason to exist, maybe religious or as a master-work for some magical guild, maybe just for extra labor that doesn't need food to live, and there are still living examples of these folks out there. Most would be owned by whatever person made them, but some would be free, and I'm imagining a friend for our new-made golem who's yellow with age, and whose fingers are grey from all the tiny scratches she's gotten over the years, that get exposed to squid ink for improptu scrimshaw. Maybe some of the older models lightly polish the scratches away (as new girl is being taught to do), but this lady's proud of her lifetime of work, so she accentuates them.
There has to be a reason all this ivory is being stockpiled, and let's go with this. Big-ass chunks of ivory are cut and polished and fitted together into graceful ivory girls, brought to life by some form of magic (maybe why you need specifically dragon ivory?) (maybe the "better" forms of ivory are the ones that are most magic-dense?), both to show off one's wealth and to have a Fancy Immortal Servant to take care of the delicate wimminfolk or something.
In the past, I feel like these guys would have had some Solid Practical Reason to exist, maybe religious or as a master-work for some magical guild, maybe just for extra labor that doesn't need food to live, and there are still living examples of these folks out there. Most would be owned by whatever person made them, but some would be free, and I'm imagining a friend for our new-made golem who's yellow with age, and whose fingers are grey from all the tiny scratches she's gotten over the years, that get exposed to squid ink for improptu scrimshaw. Maybe some of the older models lightly polish the scratches away (as new girl is being taught to do), but this lady's proud of her lifetime of work, so she accentuates them.
