Welcome back everyone to another story from the Tales of the lost mountain!

Today we have with us a precious little thing, rare beyond rare, there are a total of 300 of these beauty's in the world.

The Jeweled Leptir or more commonly known as the Gem butterfly.

Beautiful beyond compare, I have only seen 25 of these beauties in person, all relating to the more common gems in the world, however In my research I have read about rarer ones being found the deeper you go in the earth usually found near a collection of the gems these lady's are made of.

I unfortunately have a photo of a dead tanzanite butterfly for your purview today, nothing compares to them when there alive, but you take what you can get when looking for the rarer things in the world.

[https://yourimageshare.com/ib/HSf8ZKNuy4.webp]

Members of the research community believe there to be butterflies corresponding to each gem found in the world, so far there is assumed to be 300 different kinds of gems with a corresponding butterfly to go with it.

Almost like a unique elemental of the material. Ive made mention of some of the first elementals from a previous story which was the first conflagration or the first flame elemental and the last of monoliths or the last earth elemental. As far as I can tell these are mini elementals themselves, wholly unique in there make and singular in there existence.

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The most recent one some two miners found near an underground stream was a ruby butterfly, its very pretty

[https://yourimageshare.com/ib/d4ysYQ7tLG.webp]

I love how you can see through the wings of this beauty here.

Just imagine. The dark expanse of the mines, you shine your flashlight around after hearing a noise from further down and you light up something fluttering around without a care in the world.

I wonder if there wings are sharp? since they are made of gemstones after all.

I went looking in the archive of the White Rangers to see if they had anything on these specimens in the extensive underground archive they have, which is were im finding most of this info for these stories.

Kinda illegal but eh, ill be fine. They love me after all!

But in the archives, previous researcher's mentioned that artisans supposedly tore some of the butterfly's apart while still alive to make a crown for certain kings in the mountain, they got there wish for a crown, however seventeen people died to make this crown, The diamond butterfly broke free of the pins holding it down and tore through almost every single person there. Unfortunately for it another artisan had a specially crafted net to catch them in the wild in the first place. So he caught it and flung it to the ground and stomped it to death, surprisingly the diamond wasnt shattered during the struggle but he sure as shit killed that butterfly.

I dredged up a photo of the last crown made, which is kept in the royal archive of the mountain deep underground,

[https://yourimageshare.com/ib/bX9WK9aJS2.webp]