Ballits are 6-sided cubes used in Allfield for a majority of its games and gambling.
The carved inscriptions were first based on family and crop symbols. These were used thousands of years ago by record keepers working in palace warehouses. The symbols have lost their original meanings over time and been assigned several new ones.
The counters are simply made from muddy clay. First, they are pressed into wooden molds, then are pressed with clay stamps with raised symbols or carved with needle tools. When dry, they are hardened in campfires before being dipped in blue or gold paint.
As records were cleared out, or palaces were abandoned, many counters found their way into trash, alleys, and harbors. Sailors discovered these small objects acted as excellent sea chart markers while aboard their vessels.
The sailors used navigation charts made of wood so they wouldn't easily blow away and could float if the boat took on water. These were used for many years in this way. Sailors assimilated the symbols.
Through travel overseas, the counters spread across the world. Shipwrecks with colorful boards and small clay pieces would turn up on beaches.
It did not take long for the boards and pieces to be adopted by curious minds. Around this time they were starting to be called "ballits." They were quickly turned into gambling games, board games, and children's games everywhere. The most widespread board game adopting a version of a sea chart is Moons and Stars.
Today the symbols are generally recognized as the moon, star, trap, safe, pit, and path.
After Doke cards became popular, particularly Baun-Gu and Bovesh-Di, ballits were adoped to play the popular gambling game as well as tell people's fortunes.
Doke's moral struggle represented by safes acting as heroes, pits as villains, and traps as beasts. The worldly struggle is used with stars as flowers, paths as treasure, and moons as spells.