(Since it seems like Giglamesh has gone offline, or at least that's what his profile says, I'm going to move forward for now, I'll revisit the claiming a sphere action later)
The Jester fled the from the light of of the sun into the depths of the world, it went though the lightseencaverns, flittering here and there in their depths, it admired the glittering jewels that were shrouded in darkness. It reached out to them and brushed them with some of it's divine essence, creating the first life on the world. Parts of the gems broke off and fell to the floor, sprouting tiny crystal legs, they scuttled around in the darkness. The Gem Mites are created in the Lightseen Caverns! 25 mana
The Gem Mite
Pioneer
Crystal
A tiny crystalline being. It resembles a small fleck of a gem with tiny legs and mandibles. Created by a god that loves beauty, they consume not food or energy, but rather beauty itself. They prey on the gems in the walls of the caverns. Attaching themselves to the gems, they extract the shine, luster, and color of the gem. The mites body takes on the aspect of the gem that was just consumed, and can grow larger if the gem was of high enough equality and size itself (relative to the number of mites that were feeding on it of course). When the mite becomes large enough it splits in two down one of it's fracture lines, becoming two new mites, who then go off to consume more beauty. This unnatural consumption of a gem leaves it as a small grey stone, as it's beauty is sucked away. However a gem will eventually recover from this, although it can take years or decades. Only the beauty of the stone was sucked away, with the cause of the beauty, that being the composition of the gem, still intact eventually the beauty will grow back, shining out from the gem and returning color and shine to it.