Charlemagne Sapphire

## Appearance

Charlemagne Sapphire is a rather small gem, standing at 4'1" and weighing only 98 pounds. She has light periwinkle skin and powder blue hair cut into a fluffy bob; she wears a light blue long sleeve top with a blue dress bottom, and a light blue apron. In the center of the top there is a yellow diamond that symbolizes her allegiance to Yellow Diamond.

## Personality

Charlemagne is a level-headed and calm gem, and one who rarely shows expression in any situation; she has a very balancing personality that agrees with most. This is due to the fact that Charlemagne doesn't possess very many opinions, much less strong ones; this means that she tends not to disagree or agree with any particular person, making her more likeable. Charlemagne has a distant and blase attitude towards most people and can appear rather ignorant to strangers.

## History

Charlemagne was created many years ago, as one of Yellow Diamond's elite team of sapphires. Ever since Charlemagne had joined the other sapphires, it became apparent that she was the superior of the group because of her predictions being almost always spot-on. Ever since that day Charlemagne has been one of Yellow Diamond's most prized gems and is often recognized because of her efforts and abilities.

## Abilities

Charlemagne Sapphire possesses all standard gem abilities, such as fusion, agelessness, and the ability to retreat to her gemstone to regenerate.

### Skills

* **Weapon Summoning:** Charlemagne Sapphire has the ability to summon a weapon from her gemstone; this weapon takes on the form of a scepter, which she often uses as a blunt weapon; it is also capable of firing a blast of light blue energy to do damage to a gems physical form.

### Unique Abilities

* **Future Vision:** Charlemange has the ability to foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.
* **Cryokinesis:** Charlemagne can create, shape and manipulate ice, water frozen into a solid state and appears naturally in forms of snow, hail, icicles, ice spikes and candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, and polar ice caps, and cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things colder, for various effects and combinations.

## Trivia

* Charlemagne *hates* Rubies. Sorry, no Garnet here
* Charlemagne was named after the King of Franks, because of his love for sapphires

## Gemology

* Sapphire is the traditional birthstone of September and is the zodiacal sign of Virgo and Libra.
	+ Historically, it was the birthstone of April.
	+ Sapphire is the national gemstone for the United States and Greece.
* Throughout history, sapphire has symbolized truth, sincerity, and loyalty.
	+ In times of antiquity and the Middle Ages, the term sapphire referred to lapis lazuli, but in the early nineteenth century, the description and definition of sapphire were changed to the corundum variety we know today.
* Sapphire is typically very durable and considered to be one of the hardest materials on Earth.
* Sapphire is a member of the corundum family and is closely related to ruby; the red to pink-red gem-quality variety of corundum.
	+ Most corundum is opaque to translucent and heavily included, suitable only for industrial use, including the production of abrasives used for sandpaper and machining of metal, plastics, and wood.
	+ Corundum itself is not a very rare mineral, but gem quality corundum is exceedingly rare.
	+ Since Ruby is a member of the corundum group, it is closely related to sapphire and thus shares some properties, such as hardness, composition, and double refraction, with sapphire.
* While blue is the most traditional and classic color for sapphire, sapphire is found in a variety of different colors.
	+ Sapphire colors are best viewed under natural daylight. In an artificial or incandescent light, sapphire colors can appear darker and inky black-blue.
	+ Sapphire colors are a result of trace impurities. Impurities for Blue Sapphire are Iron and Titanium.
	+ Sapphires that are not blue are often referred to as fancy sapphires. Fancy Sapphire is typically traded using color-specific names, such as yellow sapphire, green sapphire or purple sapphire.
	+ Some famous sapphires include the Rockefeller Sapphire, Burma Blue, and the Star of Asia.