Here is one of my latest two pieces:

A badge for the fictional police force known as "The Vanguard Mage Force"

They are a police force for mages and magic involved crimes on a world based loosely on our own. Magic was the prominent "science" of the world, and technology has a long way to go to catch up with our own. While the year is 2010, tech is, on a pure comparison level, roughly equal to just barely post WWII.

The badge belongs to one of my own rpg characters who begins play on the day I posted this actually, she is known as a Vanguard Savant, specializing in magic pertaining to Information and also having an eye for magic outside the norm and usually accepted.

The mainstay is a large quartz crystal with the symbolic "V" for Vanguard carved in the center, along with the runes for (starting at top and continuing clockwise) light, water, air, dark, fire, and earth. All facets of the crystal are covered in 100% pure silver binding and the chain is a half silver half iron mixture, enchanted to be indestructible.