"You'd have to invent a better way to mine spellsilver. It's in the ground but there's only a little of it in a whole acre of earth, and you need it for all magic items. It's why they're rare. Headbands can be Fox's Cunning in a spell, yes, or they can be Owl's Wisdom, which does the same thing but enhances - intuition, noticing-things, letting your beliefs spool out and have all their implications - or Eagle's Splendour, which enhances interpersonal and verbal skill."

"You'd have to invent a better way to mine spellsilver. It's in the ground but there's only a little of it in a whole acre of earth, and you need it for all magic items. It's why they're rare. Headbands can be Fox's Cunning in an item, yes, or they can be Owl's Wisdom, which does the same thing but enhances - intuition, noticing-things, letting your beliefs spool out and have all their implications - or Eagle's Splendour, which enhances interpersonal and verbal skill."