Tivaragda
A tivaragda is a magical gemstone used as a form of identification for contracts made by wizards.
"A wizard must subscribe to a contract with several proofs of his word. He signs the contract with his hand in the presence of witnesses who also attest to its veracity with their own written signatures. He presses his signet ring or the butt of his rod into the wax set at the bottom of the contract. He suffuses magical energy into a small cut gem that sets and displays to an observer of appropriate expertise the nuanced qualities peculiar to the arcane ability of the wizard. This is called the creation of a tivaragda. It is true that a practiced and knowledgeable wizard could pervert the signature of his arcane energy, but with all the other attestations, it would not do to have a contrary tivaragda and there was thought to be no wizard worthy of forging the precise nuances of another exact wizard with all their particular brilliances, flashes, and persistences. By these three proofs, signature, unique wax imprint, and tivaragda, a contract with a wizard was held to be binding in any court that is willing to prosecute a wizard. For this reason, contracts with wizards in Pytharnia were almost always made enforceable in Medibgö which was one of the few places consistently willing to prosecute wizards. Other jurisdictions openly claimed that wizards were as equally subject to the law as grunterers. But in practice, witnesses and prosecutors would be paid off, high status victims compensated by the state, court dockets inexplicably loaded to the brim with cases. If there was any real chance that the suit would go to trial, witnesses would become terribly inconvenienced with excusable absences, prosecutors would suffer terminal illnesses, a judge’s loved ones would wind up missing for months at a time, palaces of law would suffer unforeseen structural failure. For this reason, Medibgö where the greater portion of its inhabitants are wizards, had become the favorite place in which to bring wizards to trial and virtually every contract with a wizard explicitly demanded the enforcement of equity in the high skynesses of Medibgö."
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