The following information comes from posts Richard Watson made to the Riven Lyst.



The colored marbles that you place in the right places to power up the linking books in the domes, are fire marbles, right?

I understand the confusion. Generally, the fire-marbles were used for light. The marbles you are referring to are a variation of the basic fire-marbles which release all of their energy very quickly (read: they explode... so don't drop them too hard!) I call these more volatile fire-marbles "power-marbles" to denote the distinction between these types of marbles.


If those little glowing spherical stones are Fire-Marbles... and they glow...

Why are the big rotating ones called Fire-Marble Domes?
They don't seem to have any capability of glowing... they don't even seem to be made of the same material...

They are shaped like giant sunken fire-marbles, exactly in the places where you need to put the real fire-marbles on the map...

They aren't actually fire-marbles, but they _represent_ fire-marbles...

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