Grape Chalcedony

# Stats

Grape Chalcedony BaseBase **·** 6★6★ Image Artist: うさ城まに Voice Artist: Mizuno Nanami Type: Physical Role: Duelist Base rarity: 4~6★Grape Chalcedony BaseBase **·** 6★6★ Image Artist: うさ城まに Voice Artist: Mizuno Nanami Type: Physical Role: Duelist Base rarity: 4~6★
Grape Chalcedony is a Duelist-class jewel princess that deals physical damage, debuted in **Renkiden ~ Watermelon**.

## Stats

All allies gain 6 turns **Stun Immunity**.
All enemies gain **50% Damage Taken Up.**
Affected targets have a medium chance of 2 turns **Stun**.

## Recommended Equipment

* Weapon - **Agility**
* Armor - **HP**
* Amulet - **Freeze, Petrify, Stun, Restrain, Paralysis, Silence**
* Material - **Damage Dealt, Critical Damage Dealt, Block**

# Mineralogy

*Grape Chalcedony is the name given to the botryoidal Purple Chalcedony that has been recently discovered in Indonesia. Grape Chalcedony represents philanthropy, smoothness, peace, and calmness.*

Grape chalcedony, often having the misnomer of "Grape agate", is a marketing name for purple aggregates of tiny quartz crystals with a spherical (botryoidal) habit. The name reflects their purple color and how they occur in clusters that resemble bunches of grapes. This material is found in the Mamuju area, near the western coast of Sulawesi, an island of Indonesia. Grape agate entered the mineral market in 2016. Its popularity quickly spread through mineral shows, rock shops, websites, and online marketplaces. Specimens with a fun appearance and an interesting name like grape agate market themselves.

Chalcedony ( /kælˈsɛdəni/) is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic.

Chalcedony has a waxy luster, and may be semitransparent or translucent. It can assume a wide range of colors, but those most commonly seen are white to gray, grayish-blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black. The color of chalcedony sold commercially is often enhanced by dyeing or heating.

The name chalcedony comes from the Latin chalcedonius (alternatively spelled calchedonius). The name appears in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia as a term for a translucid kind of Jaspis. The name is probably derived from the town Chalcedon in Asia Minor. The Greek word khalkedon (χαλκηδών) also appears in the Book of Revelation (21:19). It is a hapax legomenon found nowhere else, so it is hard to tell whether the precious gem mentioned in the Bible is the same mineral known by this name today.

As early as the Bronze Age chalcedony was in use in the Mediterranean region; for example, on Minoan Crete at the Palace of Knossos, chalcedony seals have been recovered dating to circa 1800 BC. People living along the Central Asian trade routes used various forms of chalcedony, including carnelian, to carve intaglios, ring bezels (the upper faceted portion of a gem projecting from the ring setting), and beads that show strong Greco-Roman influence.

Fine examples of first century objects made from chalcedony, possibly Kushan, were found in recent years at Tillya-tepe in north-western Afghanistan. Hot wax would not stick to it so it was often used to make seal impressions. The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, today the Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

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