Pearl

ja:真珠de:Perle
==Statistics==
==Other Uses==
==Synthesis Recipes==
==Used in Recipes==
==Desynthesis Recipes==
==Obtained from Desynthesis==
==How to Obtain==
===Quests===
* Beast from the East
===Dropped From===
Name 	Level	Zone
River Sahagin 	34-38	Yuhtunga Jungle
Stream Sahagin 	34-38	Yuhtunga Jungle
Pond Sahagin 	36-39	Sea Serpent Grotto
Spring Sahagin 	36-39	Sea Serpent Grotto
Lake Sahagin 	36-39	Sea Serpent Grotto
Brook Sahagin 	41-48	Sea Serpent Grotto
Riparian Sahagin	44-48	Sea Serpent Grotto
Peg Powler (NM) 	61 	Labyrinth of Onzozo
Charybdis (NM) 	80-81	Sea Serpent Grotto
===BCNM===
Name 	Zone 	Level	Time 	Members
Royal Succession 	Balga's Dais 	40 	15 minutes	3
Steamed Sprouts 	Balga's Dais 	40 	30 minutes	6
Tails of Woe 	Horlais Peak 	40 	30 minutes	6
Under Observation	Horlais Peak 	40 	15 minutes	3
Up in Arms 	Waughroon Shrine	60 	15 minutes	3
===Tenshodo Coffer===
Key 	Mission
Viridian Key	Bring a Bowl of bland Goblin salad, Jug of greasy Goblin juice and Chunk of smoked Goblin grub to Squintrox Dryeyes
Bird key 	Bring at least 3 different Counterseals to Squintrox Dryeyes
===Campaign Unions===
:Obtained randomly through lot in Campaign Unions
:*Grauberg (S)
==Historical Background==
Pearls are hard objects valued as gemstones (one of the few organic gemstones) which are produced inside oysters (sessile, shelled mollusks) by secreting nacre to cover some invasive body inside them (a grain of sand, or small organism, like a parasite) due to that body irritating their tissues. Nacre (AKA mother-of-pearl) is a combination of aragonite or calcite (each a crystalline polymorph of calcium carbonate) bound by conchiolin, an organic adhesive. The pearl forms over the process of a few years and only rarely does it naturally produce a spherical form. Pearls can range in color from white to cream or pink (occasionally with a tint of various other colors), but are always iridescent.
While all oysters and many mollusks can produce pearls, only one family of oysters is used for harvesting pearls, family Pteriidae (the pearl oysters), more specifically, genus Pinctada; family Ostreidae (oysters, true oysters) are not used (they are mainly used for food).
Pearls were a rare gemstone prior to the 20th century, when the advent of cultured pearls, pearls made by gathering oysters and intentionally inserting a small object (usually a rounded piece of shell) to produce a pearl of the desired shape (i.e. a sphere), developed. Most pearls were originally from the Far East (China & Japan).