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The Official SDC Chosen Clothing & Jewellery Compilation

Another list, how unexpected!

Of note:

Ranga (or any other shoes) and masks not included, as I wanted to focus solely in clothes and jewellery for this post. (Plus, it’s long enough as it is.)

Like in the eye colour compilation, characters are listed in order of appearance (though organisation by sections is a bit different in this post).

Quotes are omitted if identical or if one of the editions removes the references to what is described in the other. (And yes, I am aware that in many cases quotes will still be fairly the same in terms of description; I’m including both editions for aspects of comparison.)

Passages that refer to something already described in a previous/more extensive excerpt and not particularly informative, too-short descriptions will not be included. (The line has to be drawn somewhere, sorry.)

Great-Rings section includes mentions of how specific characters wear them (since there is variation not present with other types of rings).

Only contains quotes from The Chosen 1.0 and its second edition equivalents The Masters and The Chosen 2.0 for now; I’ll keep adding to this post as I go through the other books.

(Cut for length.)

CLOTHING

Sardian

The robe Sardian wears in his first appearance:

Opals woven into his robe blinked like the eyes of birds. (Visitors, 1st & 2nd editions)

Black robe worn in Thuyakalrul:

Carnelian watched his father wade through, the hem of his black robe floating round him like a slick of oil. (Ranga Shoes, 1st edition)

Underclothes:

It was his father sitting on the bed in the flickering firelight clad in some peculiar close-fitting garments. (Syblings, 1st edition)

(...) his father who sat on the bed in the flickering firelight clad in peculiar close-fitting garments. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

He-who-goes-before robes:

Above, framed by the throne pyramid, a bar of gold was set on end, a Lord in a court robe seemingly crucified between two staves held upright by crouching syblings. (Gods’ Tears, 1st edition)

The throne framed what appeared to be a bar of gold set on end; a Lord in a court robe who seemed crucified between two staves held upright by crouching syblings. (Gods' Tears, 2nd edition)

It shook down, and jammed as the crusted volume of its golden sleeve caught. (Gods’ Tears, 1st edition)

Suth tried to raise his arm, but his gold sleeve caught on the angle of a step. (Gods' Tears, 2nd edition)

Carnelian saw that the woven metals of his court robe were dented as his father, holding on to the staves, came down the steps. (Gods’ Tears, 1st edition)

There was a dent in his court robe. (Gods' Tears, 2nd edition)

His father grimaced, glancing down his own gold brocades, and made a sign of apology. (Gods' Tears, 1st edition)

A hand, drifting up, lifted a sleeve that was a slab of mosaiced gold. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

A hand lifted a sleeve that was a slab of mosaiced gold. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

He looked like a golden puppet. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

His father was a pillar of gold (Ykoriana, 1st & 2nd editions)

Syblings took the staves from the lictors and held them upright before his father, whose gold mass flickered and flamed as he rose. His sleeves hinged up like doors, his hands caught hold of the staves and he seemed to be pulled by them onto the first step. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

His father's gold mass flamed as he rose, took hold of the staves and stepped onto the step. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

It seemed quite natural that the huge, golden puppet should make no response. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

That huge, golden puppet was mute. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Golden light flooded out and it seemed indeed to be the sun that was moving out between the prostrate Ichorians. (...) He peered, trying to see if this tower of gold was really his father. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

Carnelian squinted at the tower of gold. (Broken Mirror Days, 2nd edition)

An angel was coming across the floor in an aura of gold. Two mortals walked beside it. It seemed miraculous that its furnace robe did not consume them with its fire. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

He awoke, transfixed by an angel that approached in an aura of gold. Two mortals walked beside it—how miraculous that its furnace robe did not consume them with its fire. (Broken Mirror Days, 2nd edition)

He had to stoop to come in and seemed to fill the chamber with his gold and rubied robe. (The Election, 1st edition)

He stooped to enter, filling the chamber with his gold and rubied robe. (The Election, 2nd edition)

The shawms slid in a shrilling pitch, shredding the air as He-who-goes-before came coruscating, towering through the Lesser Chosen. His lictors walked before him, holding up his standards like glowing coals. Carnelian worried that their support was out of his father's reach, but his progress seemed as relentless as a comet's through the sky as he pulled a flaming tail of the Ruling Lords of the Great with their lightning crowns. (The Election, 1st edition)

The shawms slid a shrilling pitch and shredded the air as He-who-goes-before came coruscating and towering through the Lesser Chosen. His lictors walked before him and held his standards aloft as glowing coals. Carnelian worried that their support was beyond his father's reach, but his progress was as relentless as that of a comet as he pulled a flaming tail of the Ruling Lords of the Great with their lightning crowns. (The Election, 2nd edition)

The lapis robe worn the day after the election:

His father was wearing a simple robe, the colour of lapis against which his hands and feet were flakes of ice. (Just One More Day, 1st & 2nd editions)

Carnelian

The first set of robes Carnelian wears in the first chapter:

His brother brought his best robes and put them on him one after the other. They were cut so that each layer beneath was partially revealed. (Visitors, 1st edition)

The robes Carnelian wears during his first meeting with Aurum, Vennel and Jaspar:

Inside the chest wondrous garments were dulled like butterflies in chrysalises of waxed parchment. As they drew them out the room filled with the scent of lilies. They marvelled at them. Tain stripped Carnelian and then one by one he put them on him. The first few were tissues so fine they floated on the air. The ones further down in the chest were heavier and interwoven with precious stones. The garments fitted over each other like the pieces of a puzzle. The final robe was of grey samite: stiff silk brocaded with coral pins. It hung as heavily as chains and was a little too long. (Visitors, 1st edition)

Inside were wondrous garments like butterflies in chrysalises of waxed parchment. As they drew them out, the room filled with the scent of lilies. Tain stripped Carnelian and put the garments on him one by one. The first few were tissues so fine they floated on the air. Robes deeper in the chest were heavier and interwoven with precious stones. The final robe was of grey samite. Stiff silk, brocaded with coral pins. It hung heavy as chains and was too long. (Visitors, 2nd edition)

The robe worn for the majority ceremony:

It was the colour of spring leaves. It did not seem a robe at all, even though it had the hollow tubes for arms. The central band was plainly woven silk. The edges were brocaded in panels and fringed with eyes and hooks of copper. Carnelian ran his fingers over one of the panels. He peered close, feeling the beads. Rows of them. Jade, minutely carved. (The Blood-Ring, 1st edition)

The robe drew from the casket was the colour of spring leaves. A central band was plain woven silk but its edges were brocaded in panels and fringed with eyes and hooks of copper. Carnelian ran his fingers over a panel and peered at the beads of carved jade. (The Blood-Ring, 2nd edition)

At first they tried to put the robe on so that the panels were to the front. With much cursing they found that only when they put them to his back could Carnelian put his arms into the sleeves. Tain hooked the robe closed from top to bottom. It fitted well enough, though it was not sufficiently thick to keep out the cold. (The Blood-Ring, 1st edition)

They tried to put the robe on him with the panels to the front. Cursing, they discovered that only when they were on his back could Carnelian get his arms into the sleeves. Tain hooked the robe closed up his spine. It fitted well enough, though it was too thin to keep out the cold. (The Blood-Ring, 2nd edition)

Travelling cloak:

They finished dressing him. Tain shook out the cloak like a billow of tar smoke. He threw it over Carnelian, then did up its belts, managing to hoist it up so that only a little of it would drag upon the ground. (The Black Ship, 1st edition)

Once they had him dressed, Tain shook out the cloak and threw it over him, did up its belts and hoisted it so that not too much dragged on the ground. (The Black Ship, 2nd edition)

He shook out his black cloak and put it on. (Trapped in Amber, 1st edition)

Carnelian's stomach churned as he shook out his black cloak and pulled it over his shoulders. (Trapped in Amber, 2nd edition)

Black robe worn in Thuyakalrul:

His chin nudged a black garment draped between his outstretched arms. Carnelian bent forward to allow Tain to feed it over his arms and head. Tain stroked it smooth then did up its spine of hooks. Carnelian yawned. He ran his palms down over the crusty brocades. (Ranga Shoes, 1st edition)

He held up a black garment. Carnelian bent so that Tain could feed it over his arms and head and do its hooks up his spine. He yawned and ran his hands over the crusty brocades. (Ranga Shoes, 2nd edition)

He lifted up some of the black cloth, peered at it, traced its patterns of glassy beads with a finger. (Ranga Shoes, 1st edition)

Carnelian peered at the patterns of glassy beads along the sleeve. (Ranga Shoes, 2nd edition)

Carnelian watched his father search the hem of his robe. When he found a single embroidered glyph like a beetle he pinched it up. (Ranga Shoes, 1st edition)

Along the hem of his robe, he located an embroidered glyph like a beetle. (Ranga Shoes, 2nd edition)

Green robes worn for the purification following the arrival to Osrakum:

New ranga were brought and jade-green robes spiralled with ferns. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

The green silk was heavy as he lifted it with his knees. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

His skin was aglide with silk. When he looked down his body was ridged with brocade scars. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

His skin glided with silk. His body ridged with brocade scars. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

The moon ray of his body hid behind a green cloud. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

The robes worn for the first meeting with Spinel and Opalid:

Inner robes swam through the air as lazily as jellyfish to engulf him. Layer after layer the robes grew heavier, the threads of their weaving more discernible, although the cloth was still so delicate that it would not hold folds but only, and temporarily, flakes of light. Fey looked horrified. 'The Master must put on an outer robe.' She clapped her hand to have them paraded. Each was carried by two servants like an elaborate piece of furniture. Some were panelled brilliantly with feathers. Others were sculpted into ridges of brocade up whose slopes climbed ladders of ivory and spinelled jewels. In honour of his father, he chose a sombre one of raven plumage flecked with birdeye opals. (At Home, 1st edition)

Inner robes swam through the air to engulf him. Layer after layer they grew heavier, the threads of their weaving more discernible, although the cloth would not hold folds but only flakes of light. (...) Fey looked horrified. 'The Master must have an outer robe.' She clapped her hand and a parade of robes appeared, each carried by two servants like an elaborate piece of furniture. Some were panelled brilliantly with feathers. Others were sculpted into ridges of brocade up whose slopes climbed ladders of ivory and spinelled jewels. In honour of his father, he chose a sombre one of raven plumage that sheened green and blue and purple as he moved. It was flecked with bird-eye opals. (At Home, 2nd edition)

After a few steps he steeled himself but the tug of the cloaks never came. He turned his head as far as he could and glimpsed some of the children carrying his train. (At Home, 1st edition)

Carnelian felt something pull at his shoulders, looked round and saw the children arranging his train in folds over the floor. (At Home, 1st edition)

He glanced round and saw the children arrange his train in geometric folds over the floor. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Mourning robe:

Carnelian's red mourning robe looked grey. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st & 2nd editions)

At last, with a sigh, he went to pick up the only outdoor robe he had. He shook out its scarlet mourning brocade, laid it out, then went to the door to call a servant. (The Ladder, 1st edition)

He laid out his scarlet mourning robe and went to the door to call for a servant. (The Ladder, 2nd edition)

Underclothes:

(...) they began to dress him in undergarments of pale padded silk that Carnelian recognized as similar to the ones his father had been wearing when he visited. (Syblings, 1st edition)

(...) the sisters dressed him in undergarments of pale padded silk like the ones his father had been wearing when he visited. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Court robe with Masks heraldry:

At first Carnelian thought it was a Master who was coming glittering in to fill the chamber, but then he saw the figure had no head and that several syblings, half hidden in its skirts, were carrying it. As the suit came into the light it seemed to ignite. It was a column of brocade densely woven from gold in which a tall and narrow panel running from neck to floor was set like a window into some heavenly realm. A verdant garden blossomed, each leaf a cut peridot or emerald. Roses petalled with spinel rubies. Orchids, opals. Creatures ran among the foliage, the mottle of their hides blemished bloodstone. Sapphire rivers foamed diamond spray. Jade trees filtered the light from iolitic skies. Rainbows brighter than parrots formed ladders up to a storm among black coral and moonstone clouds in which fire topaz lightning flashed. (Syblings, 1st edition)

At first, he thought it was a Master who had entered, glittering, but it had no head and it was carried by two syblings half hidden in its skirt. As the suit came into the firelight, it seemed to ignite. It was densely woven from fine gold wire and had a tall, narrow panel running from neck to floor that seemed a window into a heavenly realm. A verdant garden, each leaf a cut peridot or emerald. Roses petalled with spinel rubies. Opals as orchids. Creatures wove through the foliage, the mottle of their hides rendered with blemish bloodstone. Sapphire rivers foamed diamond spray. Jade trees filtered the light from iolitic skies. Rainbows brighter than parrots arced up to a storm amidst black coral and moonstone clouds in which fire topaz lightning flashed. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

The suit began to spin slowly round until his fingertips were grazing metallic threads. He was surprised they did not give sound off like a harp. The suit opened like a fist. Its innards were filled with scaffolding. (...) Its hinged ivory collar was at his throat. He fumbled blindly at the scaffolding. 'The bones of birds and the smaller saurians, for lightness,' said Right-Quentha, who must have seen his fingers move. She coaxed his arms down into the sleeves. He felt the robe closing behind him. (Syblings, 1st edition)

As the suit turned, his fingertips grazed metal threads, and it surprised him they did not make the sound of a harp. The suit opened like a fist. Pale scaffolding filled its innards. He did so, and its hinged ivory collar was at his throat. He fumbled at the scaffolding. 'The bones of birds and the smaller saurians, for lightness,' said Right-Quentha who must have seen his fingers. She coaxed his arms into the sleeves, tied straps, connected rods and closed the robe behind him. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Supplication robe:

They put a new robe of unbleached hri fibre over his padded underclothes. Feeling its coarse weave, he could hardly believe they had meant to dress him in it. He looked for a samite robe but they were already dismantling the screen wall. (Syblings, 1st edition)

Over his padded underclothes they threw a gown of unbleached hri fibre. He touched its coarse weave and could not believe this was all he was to wear, but they were already dismantling the screen wall. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Wise cloaks:

Carnelian turned the thick purple silk in his hand. (...) He shrugged when he saw Osidian was unconcerned and pulled the cloak round him, securing its bony hooks. Smoothing it, he touched beadcord. He looked down and saw the panels. He closed his eyes and began to read with his fingers, out loud. (...) 'These cloaks are reserved for near-Sapient acolytes. They are a study aid,' said Osidian. (The Ladder, 1st edition)

It was a cloak. He threw it on over his pack and did up its bony hooks. As he smoothed it down his thighs, he realized it was embroidered with beadcord. (...) 'These are the cloaks of near-Sapient acolytes,' said Osidian. 'A study aid?' (The Ladder, 2nd edition)

Tunic and trousers worn in the Yden:

Osidian pulled neatly folded bundles out of his pack and threw them at Carnelian. They turned out to be a padded tunic and close-fitting trousers. (The Ladder, 1st edition)

Osidian drew a neatly folded bundle out of his pack and Carnelian found a similar one in his. It was a padded tunic and close-fitting trousers. (The Ladder, 2nd edition)

Court robe with Suth heraldry:

It was similar to the suit he had worn before but it had different heraldry in the panel running down its front. He touched the chameleons writhing on a field of jades, emeralds and other green stones. Under his fingers their skins were a mottle of pearls. Their black opal eyes blinked. They looked more alive than geckos on a wall. (The Silent Heart, 1st edition)

It resembled the robe he had worn before, but had Suth heraldry down the front panel. He touched the chameleons that writhed on a field of jades, emeralds and other green stones. Under his fingers, their skin was a mottle of pearls. Their black opal eyes blinked, and they looked more alive than geckos on a wall. (The Silent Heart, 2nd edition)

Mourning sash:

When they knotted a scarlet sash around his left wrist he remembered that all the Chosen were in mourning for the God Emperor. (The Silent Heart, 1st edition)

Various:

Carnelian looked through the robes Fey had sent him. They were all flimsy, delicate silks, clothing suitable for wearing in his chambers, not for whatever expedition Osidian had in mind. (The Ladder, 1st edition)

He sorted through the robes Fey had sent. They were all elegant silk and clearly unsuited for whatever expedition Osidian had in mind. (The Ladder, 2nd edition)

He tugged at the ridged cloth, growling curses until at last he had tumbled down from his ranga, falling like a cutdown tree, crumpling the brocades, rending samite. He lay with the bone frame jabbing into his skin, chuckling mirthlessly. He shuffled out, like a snake discarding its skin, and when he was free he kicked the glimmering golden shell aside and went to stand upon the balcony in his underclothes until the wind had numbed even his bones. (Just One More Day, 1st edition)

The metal brocades buckled; the samite tore. Enmeshed in the ruin of the robe, he chuckled mirthlessly. Its bone frame scratched him as he wriggled like a snake discarding his skin. When he was free, he kicked the glimmering golden shell aside and went out onto the balcony to let the wind numb him to the core. (Just One More Day, 2nd edition)

Aurum, Vennel & Jaspar

Travelling cloaks:

The other three, though much like him, were enveloped in great black hooded cloaks greyed with brine. (Visitors, 1st edition)

Though much like him, the other three were enveloped in great black hooded cloaks, greyed with brine. (Visitors, 2nd edition)

Robes worn during the first meeting with Carnelian:

Each wore many-layered robes, plumaged, crusted with gems and ivories. (The Conclave, 1st & 2nd editions)

Jaspar’s gloves:

'You should wear gloves,' said Jaspar and lifted up his hands. Each was sheathed in silvery leather streaked like serpentine, so thin his hands seemed merely painted. (Dreaming, 1st edition)

Jaspar raised his, sheathed in silvery leather streaked like serpentine. (Dreaming, 2nd edition)

Jaspar’s mourning robe:

On the first landing stood a being like a column of blood. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

On the first landing was a being like a column of blood. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Carnelian resumed his climb, keeping the blood-red giant in the centre of his sight. The figure shifted and Carnelian saw Jaspar's face, a shell cameo imbedded in the welter of mourning red. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

As Carnelian ascended the steps, the blood-red giant shifted, and he saw Jaspar's face, a shell cameo embedded in the welter of his mourning robe. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Jaspar’s Imago heraldry robe:

A Ruling Lord appeared towering at the edge of their group. Carnelian saw the House Imago dragonflies on his robe. (The Election, 1st edition)

A Ruling Lord towered at the edge of their group with House Imago dragonflies down his robe. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Jaspar laughed at him through his mask and walked off, dragging a train like a sunset sky. (The Election, 1st edition)

Jaspar laughed through his mask and moved away, dragging a train like a sunset sky. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Thuyakalrul Legate and other Lesser Chosen

Armour (1st edition):

While the soldiers clunked into the prostration the apparitions kept coming at them. Their bronze carapaces had an insect mottle. Ridged plates of samite were underneath. Each wore an elaborate horned helm into which was wedged a Master's mask. (The Tower in the Sea, 1st edition)

His helm turned its four-horned mass and Carnelian had the feeling that he and the others were being counted. (The Tower in the Sea, 1st edition)

Leather suits (2nd edition):

The smaller men fell into prostrations and the apparitions came on, by their height Masters, apparently naked save for their masks. (The Tower in the Sea, 2nd edition)

(...) their leader. He was not naked but clothed head to foot in a close-fitting suit of white leather. (The Tower in the Sea, 2nd edition)

Carnelian wondered at his pale leather suit. A second skin over head and body, arms and legs and with each limb ending in fingered or toed gloves. (The Tower in the Sea, 2nd edition)

Secondary lineage Suths

The robes worn by Spinel and Opalid during their first meeting with Carnelian:

He passed through their cordon into cooler air, then through another of lamps and saw the two towers of sculptured silk awaiting him. Slabs of samite stiff with jewels joined by barrelling brocade. (At Home, 1st edition)

Two towers of sculptured silk awaited him. Slabs of samite, stiff with jewels, joined by barrelling brocade. (At Home, 2nd edition)

The Master reached down the slopes of his robe. His hands took hold of some brocade and pulled on it like handles. The robes billowed up like a wave. Behind this his jewelled torso began sinking. The silk subsided sighing as Carnelian realized the Master was kneeling. (At Home, 1st edition)

He reached down the slope of his robes and pulled on brocade handles. His robes billowed. Behind this wave, his jewelled torso sank as the Master knelt. The silk subsided with a sigh. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Robes worn by Spinel and Opalid for the second meeting with Carnelian:

Carnelian sat on a throne watching the approach of the Masters of the second lineage. Each was a jewelled spire pulling behind him a train carried by many boys. (At Home, 1st edition)

Carnelian sat on a throne and watched the approach of the Masters of the second lineage, each a jewelled spire pulling a train carried by many boys. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Secondary lineage lords’ Suth heraldry robes:

Carnelian saw the Masters each had chameleon heraldry dancing up their court robes. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

Each Master's court robe was panelled with chameleon heraldry. (Broken Mirror Days, 2nd edition)

Carnelian saw him there with the others, the nine Lords of House Suth with their chameleon-cyphered court robes. (The Election, 1st edition)

He was there with the nine Lords of House Suth in their chameleon-sigiled court robes. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Urquentha

Robes worn during her meeting with Carnelian:

The hand released him and receded into a pearl-crusted sleeve. (At Home, 1st edition)

Her hand released him and receded into a pearl-crusted sleeve. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Jaspar’s brother and other Imagos

Mourning robes:

Silk was sighing down the stair. A Master was descending, wrapped in the flame of a scarlet cloak, his mask smouldering in his cowl. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

A Master approached, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, his mask smouldering in his cowl. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

More than a dozen scarlet Masters followed, some throwing frowns at him as they passed. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

More than a dozen scarlet Masters followed, who frowned at Carnelian as they passed. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Jaspar’s father

Green robe:

Upon this a Master lay, reeking of myrrh, encased in a green robe as stiff as a box, the cloth darkening where it sucked up meltwater. The robe was spangled with tiny spirals that might have been the heads of nails hammered through into the flesh. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

Upon this a Master lay, reeking of myrrh and encased in a green robe as stiff as a box, the cloth darkening where it sucked up meltwater. The tiny spirals that spangled the robe might have been the heads of nails hammered through into the flesh. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Cumulus

Robes worn during his meeting with Jaspar and Carnelian:

They were now close enough for Carnelian to see the Master's autumn-plumaged robe (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

He was huge and swathed in vast robes of russet and gold. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Unidentified Chosen/groups of Chosen

Court robes:

At the feet of the looming avatars, the landing was a bloody swirl of red and purple mosaic upon which dozens of Masters stood in their court robes, their backs to him, motionless gold towers. (Syblings, 1st edition)

Carnelian stared, seeing that the Masters were all headless. The court robes could have been the discarded moults of angels. (Syblings, 1st edition)

He realised that the Masters were headless; the court robes were the moult of angels. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

The nave was hung with suns beneath whose showering rays slipped vast shapes, angels sheathed in starlight. Some were jewelled sculptures. Others opened like exquisite mechanisms, spreading their arms to display sleeves like falls of sunlit water. White hands fluttered everywhere like doves. He searched and found their masks, faces carved high into the golden towers where each swelled into a huge crown. (The Silent Heart, 1st edition)

The nave was hung with suns beneath whose rays slipped vast shapes, angels sheathed in starlight. Some were jewelled sculptures. Others opened like exquisite mechanisms, spreading their arms to display sleeves like falls of sunlit water. White hands fluttered everywhere. Set high in each golden tower was a gold face that blossomed into a huge crown. (The Silent Heart, 2nd edition)

More followed, with their heraldry wrought in gems upon their smouldering robes. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

The jewelled oblongs of the Great began bunching as they crossed the bridge accompanied by a shadowy reflected host moving in the moat's black depths. (The Election, 1st edition)

The jewelled oblongs of the Great bunched as they crossed the bridge, accompanied by a shadowy host in the black depths of the moat. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Supplication robes:

The beauty of their faces and limbs was made even brighter in contrast to their coarseweave. (Syblings, 1st edition)

The beauty of their faces and limbs was even brighter in contrast to their coarse-weave. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Masters in coarseweave robes were gathered, all Ruling Lords, all facing something Carnelian could not see. (Syblings, 1st edition)

A gathering of Masters in unbleached gowns faced something Carnelian could not see. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Molochite

The robes worn by Molochite during his first meeting with Carnelian:

At their feet he could see something like a narrow window opening onto a bright meadow. Carnelian kept walking, glancing at the oblong of emerald light, seeing its luminous Chosen face. (Syblings, 1st edition)

At their feet, there was something like a narrow window opening onto a bright meadow. As he approached, he saw that the oblong of emerald light had a luminous Chosen face. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

As his green flame came burning towards Carnelian, the Great bowed out of his way. Carnelian waited, clearing his face of expression, his view filling with Molochite's wall of faceted emerald. (Syblings, 1st edition)

As his green flame burned towards him, the Great bowed out of his way. Carnelian's view filled with Molochite's wall of faceted emerald. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Robes and cloak worn during Sardian and Carnelian’s meeting with Ykoriana:

Carnelian turned to see a pillar of green jewel fire sweeping towards them from out of the dark. (...) the Jade Lord swept past trailing a quetzal-feathered cloak. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

From out of the dark, a pillar of green jewel fire swept towards then. (...) the Jade Lord swept past, trailing a quetzal-feather cloak. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Robes worn during the election:

Spinel turned a frown to the northwest. 'And Molochite.' In that direction stood an emerald man. (The Election, 1st & 2nd editions)

Osidian

The robes Osidian wears when they set out into the Yden:

Carnelian stared in amazement as Osidian pulled layer after layer over his head and pushed them under his feet. The last two robes were merely a mist concealing his body. (The Ladder, 1st edition)

He stood and wriggled out of his robes. Carnelian watched him pull layer after layer over his head and push them under his feet—presumably so that they would not blow away. (The Ladder, 2nd edition)

Court robe worn during his brief meeting with Sardian and Carnelian:

Something was coming down that looked like water seen at the bottom of a well. (...) Looking up, Carnelian saw the vast black Lord was almost upon them. Syblings covered the steps around him like an extension of his raven-jewelled court robe. Others carried a pair of court staves before him bearing the jade and the obsidian masks. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

As people knelt around them, Carnelian saw a vast black Lord upon the steps. Prone syblings seemed extensions of his raven-jewelled court robe. They held before him staves surmounted by the jade and obsidian masks. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Robes worn during the election:

'Nephron,' said Spinel. Carnelian followed the nervous flicker of his eyes past the Turtle's Voice, to the southeast where high in the firewall something was embedded like a black diamond. (The Election, 1st edition)

‘Nepheron,' muttered Spinel. Carnelian followed the nervous flicker of his eyes past the Turtle's Voice to the south-east where, embedded high in the firewall, glimmered a black diamond man. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Court robe worn when he goes to see Carnelian post-election:

The sharp brocades of his court robe scratched into Carnelian's skin but Carnelian did not care. (...) He drew him closer, gasping as the metal brocades bit deeper into him. (Just One More Day, 1st edition)

The sharp brocades of his court robe scratched into Carnelian's skin, but he did not care. (...) He drew him closer, gasping as the metal robe gouged into him. (Just One More Day, 2nd edition)

Ykoriana

Mourning robes:

The Sapients bowed and turned back to strangle their homunculi, gazing blindly up into the light towards a welter of red like a blooded sword. This scarlet figure stood between two court staves. (...) The red figure lifted a slim long-fingered hand (...) and released a veil. The gold angel face appeared like the sun at dawn. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

The Sapients bowed, and their blind gaze returned to the scarlet figure standing between two court staves before the throne. (...) The red figure raised a slim, long-fingered hand (...) and released a veil to reveal an angel face of gold like the sun at dawn. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

The scarlet mass slid down a little as Ykoriana knelt on her ranga. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

The scarlet mass subsided as Ykoriana knelt on her ranga (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Carnelian obeyed him and found himself staring up at the Dowager Empress in her widow's robes. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

Carnelian obeyed him and stared up at the Dowager Empresss in her widow's robe. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Masks ladies and lords (in general)

Robes worn by the Masks ladies during the election:

He stared appalled, grinding his teeth, as the procession bubbled down its syblings, carrying with it a gory eye, a bloody gathering of knives, Ykoriana and the other women of her House. (The Election, 1st edition)

Carnelian ground his teeth and stared, appalled, at the syblings flanking a gory eye, a bloody gathering of knives: Ykoriana and the other women of her House. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Beside her paced four smaller amethystine women. (The Election, 1st edition)

Beside her were three smaller amethystine women. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Robes worn by the Masks lords during the election:

Behind came the Lords of the Masks, scores of them with jewelled nest crowns and the faces of angels reflecting sunrise, and Chosen syblings as wide in their robes as chariots (The Election, 1st edition)

Behind came the Lords of the Masks, turreted with jewels and with the faces of angels reflecting sunrise. Chosen syblings, as wide in their robes as chariots, followed (The Election, 2nd edition)

Hanuses

Cloak worn during their confrontation with Carnelian and Osidian:

Carnelian squinted sight into his eyes and saw the ranga, the jewel-brocaded hem of a Master's cloak. (Funerary Urns, 1st edition)

Carnelian squinted, saw ranga and the jewel-brocaded hem of a Master's cloak and looked up at a huge, shrouded figure. (Funerary Urns, 2nd edition)

JEWELLERY

Blood-rings

(...) on the least finger of each right hand there was a dull, narrow band. A ring of skymetal that grew bloody when not oiled. Iron, most precious of substances save only the ichor of the Gods Themselves. (The Conclave, 1st edition)

(...) on the least finger of each right hand there was a dull, narrow band. A ring of sky-metal that grew bloody when not oiled. Iron, most precious of substances save only the ichor of the Gods. (The Conclave, 2nd edition)

A ring of iron. A blood-ring that entitled him to cast votes in the elections of the Masters. He turned it in the firelight. Around the band's edge were the raised glyphs for his names and the spots and bars of numbers. (...) Its symbols were in mirrored form so that it could be used as a seal with both ink and wax. The eleven numbers confirmed the fractional tainting of his blood. He knew that it should be put on the smallest finger of the right hand. As the right hand signified the world of light so its smallest finger signified purity. It was too big. (The Blood-Ring, 1st edition)

On his palm was a ring of iron. Carnelian took it and turned it in the firelight. It was a blood-ring and entitled him to cast votes in the elections of the Masters. Around the edge of the band were the raised glyphs for his names, and the spots and bars of numbers. (...) Its symbols were in mirror form so that it could be used as a seal with both ink and wax. Eleven numbers confirmed the fractional tainting of his blood. He slipped it onto the smallest finger of his right hand. As the right hand signified the world of light, so its smallest finger signified purity. It was too loose. (The Blood-Ring, 2nd edition)

Great-Rings

General description:

Inside was a long narrow piece of exquisitely worked jade pierced by three finger holes. (Visitors, 1st & 2nd editions)

Molochite’s Great-Rings:

Molochite swept an exquisite hand round loaded with four Great-Rings. (Syblings, 1st edition)

Molochite gestured with an exquisite hand loaded with four Great-Rings. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Ykoriana’s Great-Rings:

The red figure lifted a slim long-fingered hand that had two Great-Rings on it (...) When the other hand rose Carnelian saw that it too had a pair of Great-Rings and then he knew without doubt he was in the presence of the Dowager Empress, Ykoriana. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

The red figure raised a slim, long-fingered hand that had two Great-Rings on it (...) When the other hand rose, Carnelian saw that it too had a pair of Great-Rings, and he knew, beyond doubt, he was in the presence of the Dowager Empress Ykoriana. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Ykoriana came on behind, floating into the chamber on a gale of horns and trumpets. Her hands were folded across her chest sheathed in the jade of her four Great-Rings. (The Election, 1st edition)

Ykoriana floated into the chamber on a gale of horns and trumpets. Folded across her chest, her hands were sheathed in the jade of her four Great-Rings. (The Election, 2nd edition)

Spinel’s Great-Rings:

He extended a pale hand upon which two Great-Rings were the only marks and began to point at the various Lords. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

Spinel extended a pale hand striped with two Great-Rings. (Broken Mirror Days, 2nd edition)

Ruling Rings

Upon it were several rings, but above his blood-ring was another, the Ruling Ring of House Suth. Its black adamant was forced into the centre of Carnelian's vision. (The Blood-Ring, 1st edition)

Upon it were several rings, but above his blood-ring was the Ruling Ring of House Suth. Its black adamant was at the centre of Carnelian's vision. (The Blood-Ring, 2nd edition)

He slapped the panel back over the window and reached down to squeeze out what comfort there was left in his father's hand. (...) On the little finger, above the blood-ring, sat the Ruling Ring of House Suth. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

He slapped the panel shut and bent to squeeze his father's hand. (...) Above the blood-ring on the little finger sat the Ruling Ring of House Suth. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

He closed his fist and rubbed it over his other hand, whose shape seemed unfamiliar. A swollen knuckle. No, a ring. His father's ring on his hand. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

His other hand had a swollen knuckle. No, a ring: his father's ring on his hand. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

Jaspar's hand went to a chain at his throat and drew a Ruling Ring out from his robe. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

Jaspar's hand went to a chain at his throat, drew out from his robe a Ruling Ring and dangled it. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

His father looked at his ring, frowning. He rubbed his finger over its cypher and showed Carnelian the ink stain on his skin. (Syblings, 1st edition)

His father rubbed its sigil and displayed the ink stain on his finger. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Pomegranate Ring

His father was holding up his hand. A bloody eye wounded his palm: a ruby thrusting down from a ring he wore on his middle finger. (The Tower in the Sea, 1st edition)

His father splayed his hand to display what seemed a bloody wound in his palm: a ruby that extended on a ring he wore on his middle finger. (The Tower in the Sea, 2nd edition)

The ring was a huge wound in the heart of his palm. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

(...) the ring seemed a wound in the heart of his palm. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

He put his hand out and opened it to reveal the muted flame of the Pomegranate Ring. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

He opened his hand and revealed the muted flame of the Pomegranate Ring, and Carnelian took it. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

He lifted the hand to look at them. The Pomegranate Ring on the middle finger. (The Three Gates, 1st edition)

He lifted the hand and squinted at the Pomegranate Ring in the middle finger. (The Three Gates, 2nd edition)

The shaking of his father's crowned head vibrated them both. He opened his hand to reveal the red eye of the Pomegranate Ring. (Gods’ Tears, 1st edition)

His father opened his hand to reveal the red eye of the Pomegranate Ring. (Gods' Tears, 2nd edition)

Other rings

Jade rings:

'The kharon take only jade.' Jaspar twisted another ring from his finger and handed it to Carnelian, who took it and made to give it to the ferryman. (A Stranger in Paradise, 1st edition)

Jaspar twisted another ring from his finger and gave it to him. ‘The kharon accept only jade.’ (A Stranger in Paradise, 2nd edition)

As they watched the pallid boat ruffling the fiery mirror of the lake, Carnelian checked his hand to make sure he had brought the jade rings he needed for payment. (Into the Labyrinth, 1st edition)

He checked to see if he had the jade rings he needed for payment and looked at her. (Into the Labyrinth, 2nd edition)

Kumatuya’s ring:

He saw the narrow hand, the sharp ring, the blood pooling on the yellowed skin. (Gods’ Tears, 1st edition)

(...) and he saw a narrow hand and the sharp ring and the blood that pooled on the yellowed skin (Gods’ Tears, 2nd edition)

Various:

Each was knuckled with rings like stars (The Conclave, 1st edition)

The hands of the Masters were knuckled with rings like stars (The Conclave, 2nd edition)

He-who-goes-before’s crown

Carnelian narrowed his eyes against the coruscating glare of the figure's sunburst crown. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

(...) his eyes were focused on the enthroned being rising behind them, haloed by a corona of flickering flames. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

(...) his focus was on the enthroned being behind them who was haloed by a corona of flickering flames. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

The sunburst crown presented its teeth to him so that Carnelian could not see his father's face. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

The spiked halo rose, lifting the limestone of his father's face after it (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

(...) from whose apex rayed the sun disc that hid fully a third of his height. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

(...) from whose apex rayed the sun disc that hid a third of his height. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

His father's sunhaloed head shot with fire as he nodded. (Ykoriana, 1st & 2nd editions)

His fingers traced the bands into narrow channels that burrowed round into the sculptural mass of his crowns. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

He traced the bands to narrow channels that burrowed into the sculptural mass of his crowns. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Carnelian skirted him and stood on his toes to reach, felt around, found the catches, pressed and was thrown back as the sunburst fell into his arms. He walked with it and leaned its disc against the wall. He returned to lift down the upper crown, the lower, the sunstone circlet with its jewelled beadcords, the ear flanges, until the long dome of his father's head was revealed. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st edition)

He removed his father's upper crown and the lower, the sunstone circlet with its jewelled beadcords and the ear flanges—and the long dome of his father's head was revealed. (Broken Mirror Days, 2nd edition)

Suth lords’ crowns with name glyphs

Ivory plaques in their crowns bore the glyphs of their names. (Broken Mirror Days, 1st & 2nd editions)

'I have...' Carnelian read the name glyph on his crowns, 'Cousin Veridian.' (The Election, 1st edition)

'I have...' Carnelian read the name on his crowns—'cousin Veridian.' (The Election, 2nd edition)

Other crowns

The crown Carnelian wears during his first meeting with Aurum, Vennel and Jaspar:

At the bottom of the chest Tain found a box holding a circlet of blackgrained silver wreathed with turquoises and jades. (Visitors, 1st edition)

At the bottom of the chest was a box that held a circlet of black-grained silver wreathed with turquoises and jades. (Visitors, 2nd edition)

The crown worn by Carnelian when meeting with Spinel and Opalid for the first time:

He brooded as crowns were shown to him, many-tiered, like houses or ships, inlaid with precious leathers, haloed, startling with iridescing feather fans. He would have none of them. He overruled Fey and settled for a simple diadem of black jade. (At Home, 1st edition)

He brooded as they showed him crowns, many-tiered, like houses or ships, inlaid with precious leathers, haloed, startling with iridescent feather fans. 'They are too much,' he said, and settled for a simple diadem of black jade. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Spinel and Opalid’s crowns, worn during the aforementioned meeting:

High in these structures, surrounded by coronas of quetzal plumes, was the gold of their disdainful faces. (...) The green coronas inclined. (At Home, 1st edition)

High in these structures, in coronas of quetzal plumes, was the gold of their disdainful masks. (At Home, 2nd edition)

Urquentha’s headwear:

A jewelled halo that framed her face took all its glimmer from her skin. (At Home, 1st edition)

Her face was haloed with jewels that took their glimmer from her skin. (At Home, 2nd edition)

The jewelled structure around her head rustled and glimmered like a flight of beetles. (At Home, 1st edition)

Her jewelled halo rustled and glimmered like a flight of beetles (At Home, 2nd edition)

The crowns Carnelian wears with the Masks heraldry robe:

He knelt again and they began to build a crown upon his head. First a diadem of misty jade from which fell tresses of beaded tourmalines. Over this they set a helmet of jewel-ribbed leather that flared from his neck like the hood of a cobra. Above this they placed a final coronet that spread a jewelled halo behind his head, upon whose summit sat side by side a face of jade and one of obsidian. (Syblings, 1st edition)

They asked him to kneel again, and they built a crown upon his head. First, a diadem of misty jade from which fell tresses of beaded tourmalines. Over this they set a helmet of jewel-ribbed leather that flared from his neck like the hood of a cobra. Above this they placed a coronet that spread a jewelled halo behind his head and, on the forehead of his mask, they fixed a small face of jade and another of obsidian. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

Molochite’s crowns:

Carnelian felt the light going out as Molochite turned away, replacing the radiance of his face with the smoulder of his green-jewelled crowns. (Syblings, 1st edition)

When he turned away, the green smoulder of his jewelled crowns eclipsed the radiance of his face. (Syblings, 2nd edition)

He saw the mask floating high above and the horned crowns. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

It had a mask among horned crowns. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Osidian’s crowns:

His gold mask shone high above like the sun peering through a pillar of smoke. His crowns threatened an eclipse. (Ykoriana, 1st edition)

His mask shone through the threatening eclipse of his crowns. (Ykoriana, 2nd edition)

Various:

Each was crowned with dull fire. (The Conclave, 1st & 2nd editions)

Two Masters came out, crowned with subdued fire (The Silent Heart, 1st edition)

Two Masters emerged, crowned with subdued fire (The Silent Heart, 2nd edition)

Others

He stirred the contents with a finger and fished out a brooch of apple-jade and ivory. (Visitors, 1st edition)

Carnelian stirred the contents with a finger and fished out a brooch of apple-jade and ivory. (Visitors, 2nd edition)

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