Ericaite (Mind Player)

Ericaite is one of the secondary antagonists of the Phoenix Minerals Series. She is a defiant and naughty gem, who dislikes Violarite and appreciates Heterosite's new look.

Personality
She was a defiant gem who always defied Violarite's orders, and shattering or crushing gems she wasn't ordered to harm insensibly or in it's totality. She had a deep hatred towards Heterosite's ranking in the Estrado Group, always envying her feats and con-decorations. But this hatred ceased when Heterosite was "Neutralized" after she committed treason against the GDA and Estrado. Where she "took" Hetero's place. This victory was short lived, as the "new" Heterosite proved worthy of the rank, taken away Ericaite's hopes, and awaking her envy and hatred.

Abilities
Ericaite is capable of achieving feats similar to that of a Quartz, but displays various unique abilities of her own.

Unique Abilities

 * Morality Manipulation: Ericaite can make people ethically good or immorally evil by psychically kindling the targets’ minds so that they succumb to the voice of truth or to the urge of sin. Basically, she uses this power to make other gems work for her for a short period of time, when that time runs out, the original moral compass inside the gem reactivates.
 * Energy Absorption/Projection: Ericaite can absorb any form of energy, from luminous, to chemical, and project it in the form she desires, be it electrical or thermal. There is a limit to this, as she can absorb a certain quantity of energy before her gem gets overwhelmed, and eventually cracks.

Trivia

 * Ericaite's envy and hatred of both Heterosite and Violarite is obvious in the first 3 pages of Phoenix Minerals: Traicion
 * Her red eyes are realted to another Gem's power being casted on her.

Mineralogy

 * Crystal Data: Orthorhombic, pseudocubic. Point Group: mm2. As pseudocubic crystals, dominated by {100} and modified by {111}, to 2.2 cm.


 * Physical Properties: Hardness = [7–7.5] (by analogy to boracite). D(meas.) = 3.17–3.22 | D(calc.) = 3.58


 * Optical Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Pale green to raspberry-red, red-violet, brownish, violet, brown, black, may be zoned.
 * Optical Class: Biaxial (–). α = 1.731 β = 1.755 γ = 1.755 2V(meas.) = Small.


 * Cell Data: Space Group: P ca21. a = 8.58 b = 8.65 c = 12.17 Z = 4
 * Formula: Fe2+3B7O13Cl
 * The Fe2+ analogue of Boracite and Chambersite. The orthorhombic dimorph of Congolite.