Popular Culture
In author Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series, the eponymous character - a boy heir to the throne of an organised crime family, has an affection for gold, reflected by a close-to-heart family maxim: "Aurum est potestas" (Latin for 'Gold is Power'). Artemis' world is also inhabited by fairies (unbeknownst to most humans) who harbor vast reserves of gold, and his plot to steal this kicks off the series.
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