> Almost indestructible and weightless fallen shards of the sky are the setting's currency.
>>53039950
No. Stop shitposting.
>>53039950
>using currency
>>53039950
If they are weightless how did they reach the ground? They wouldn't have fallen in the first place because the weight of the air would have displaced them upwards making them rise.
The best currency is slaves
>>53040042
Clearly, they're just almost weightless, and OP merely used a slightly ambiguous grammatical construction.
>>53040042
Well, imagine that whatever created them also imparted them with enough force to project them into the earth. Sky shard meteorites.
>>53039963
You. I like you.
Stormphrax?
Does it also get immeasurably heavy and dense in complete darkness?
Is it also used to hold down a giant floating rock with a school built on top of it?
>>53039950
That's one way to ensure a stable currency. Unless the shards keep falling, in which case you're going to get some steady inflation.
If they're almost indestructible, though, why would you use them for currency? Wouldn't people incorporate them into armor? Yes, weightless, so not very good on impact, but they'd be great worn over some solid padding.
>>53040083
Slaves are a terrible currency. You can't really make change, you have to spend money to feed your money, and it loses its value over time and becomes valueless when it dies.
>>53040266
What about making them a power source or something.
Something like a shard being filled with some magical essence that makes it so people want them for themselves. Though it can take a long time for the shard to recharge, like more than a year or longer before its usable again.
More shards, the more you can do so families try to horde em and get them from others.
It shouldn't be the main form of currency but just the most valuable. Like a currency above platinum in D&D
>>53040266
What if they were cotton-like in consistency, couldn't fuse together, would slide out from underneath rope, and would provide almost no blunt protection? That would solve the armor issue.
>>53040042
What if periodically, a gust of wind blew clumps of them to the ground, where they naturally broke apart into portable clumps?