Treacher’s Gold

Occasionally on digs, in commercial transactions, or simply discarded along the road, people will find pieces of gold in various shapes and configurations. Sometimes it’s a coin, other times a small trinket or bit of jewelry. Always it is described as being “painful” to the touch, with the discoverer experiencing migraines and other physical symptoms after coming into contact with it, and then struggling to describe or recall what they had found. Legend tells that the metal was cursed by the betrayal of some great god or demon, though it is all speculation.