Polished tiger's-eye with golden chatoyant bands rolling over deep red-brown strata, the light sliding across the fibers as the die turns the way it does in the real stone. A wet-gem gleam over the whole surface. The numerals are cut down into the faces and filled matte bone-ivory, real recessed geometry, deliberately unpolished so they read as clean inlay against all that shine rather than another highlight. The full polyhedral set, plus a d2 and a d16, all cut to match.

Tiger's-eye is banded quartz grown through old fibrous stone, and cutters prize the pieces where the light lies down in a single moving band. It is worked slow and polished slower, because the shimmer only comes up if the cut runs with the fibers instead of across them. Warriors carry it for nerve, on the reasoning that a stone which watches back is a stone worth having in a fight.

1 sets containing 9 dice