Visual Description
A scaled egg with a gemstone.

Lifestyle
After the Amethyst eggs were found, the explorers based in Old City tried to strike out on new paths, but each discovered tunnel seemed to lead nowhere. One path actually seemed to lead deep under water, and no one was eager to brave it. The explorers were used to the narrow tunnels and steep inclines of the underground, and even the hidden rivers, but the unfathomably deep well of water was a different thing. Who knew where it ended?

So the explorers kept to the solid paths. Yet as time passed and nothing new was discovered, the boldest among them began to wonder. Perhaps they had to strike out into the water after all. Eventually, after lugging the newest underwater technology from Old City deep into the cave, they were as prepared as they would ever be.

Enveloped by the dark water on all sides, the explorers didn't know where they were going. Even the headgear's lamps only gave them a few feet of visibility, but something told them to go deeper, so they listened.

The darkness grew with each moment, but then voices cut through the silence, stilling their descent. When the explorers followed, they came across eggs hidden among the sand lining the bottom of the well. The eggs eagerly greeted the explorers but when they tried to take the eggs back up, the eggs resisted closer to the surface. Eventually, a compromise was struck and the eggs settled for being transported to Hephasteus in opaque buckets full of water to meet their caretakers.