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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2630865" data-attributes="member: 18280">If you invented new creatures, or modified creatures, you could also invent substances that could be used to create money.&nbsp; For example, air whales could vomit up a substance similar to ambergis (let's call it &quot;light ambergis&quot;), a reeking (but very light, so it stays in the atmosphere a long time, and settles slowly, with even the smallest wind currents keeping it aloft) useful in perfume making (like real ambergis) or as a power component for some useful potion.&nbsp; The air folk know where to harvest it, and press it into small &quot;coins&quot; with a fairly consistent value.The Emperor of the Ocean, meanwhile, has a monopoly on a species of oyster that produces zebra-striped pearls.&nbsp; These pearls (and no others) are backed by the Empire's store of some other commodity (perhaps gold or diamonds pushed up from an undersea volcanic vent?).&nbsp; Counterfeiters sometimes try to dye or paint normal pearls as zebras, and a &quot;scratch test&quot; is a common method of making sure that the currency is real.Etc.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 2630865, member: 18280"] If you invented new creatures, or modified creatures, you could also invent substances that could be used to create money. For example, air whales could vomit up a substance similar to ambergis (let's call it "light ambergis"), a reeking (but very light, so it stays in the atmosphere a long time, and settles slowly, with even the smallest wind currents keeping it aloft) useful in perfume making (like real ambergis) or as a power component for some useful potion. The air folk know where to harvest it, and press it into small "coins" with a fairly consistent value. The Emperor of the Ocean, meanwhile, has a monopoly on a species of oyster that produces zebra-striped pearls. These pearls (and no others) are backed by the Empire's store of some other commodity (perhaps gold or diamonds pushed up from an undersea volcanic vent?). Counterfeiters sometimes try to dye or paint normal pearls as zebras, and a "scratch test" is a common method of making sure that the currency is real. Etc. RC [/QUOTE]

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