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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5417881" data-attributes="member: 19675">That would also fit in with the gold accented skull- looks like you're tying things together!Thinking about art history, this reminds me that gold leaf was often used in royal and religious architecture...and sometimes even in sculptures & painting...ESPECIALLY when trying to evoke a concept of divine radiance.And all those golden crowns, torcs and laurel-leaves suddenly take on a new aspect...But only if you make gold a mystical insulator as opposed to mystical anathema.  By that I mean that it acts, not as a ward or toxin to beings of the Dark- like silver to lycanthropes or cold iron to fey- but like a barrier.Thus, a being who was tainted by the Dark could touch, handle, wear, or even work gold, but could not cross a line made of fine gold wire.  Gold would be used in the runes entombing powerful Darktainted foes, to ensure they could not escape....And a Darktainted ruler wearing his crown of gold could not have his Drkness expunged/exorcised as long as that crown were on his head; the Darkness being unable to pass that small barrier.  Perhaps he'd be immune so long as he wore a necklace or ring of the material as well.</blockquote>