Feldon 
With the Altar of Malice expansion and its related Signature quest, players earned the unlimited ability to safely break off adornments from their gear without destroying either the items or the adornments. However there was a catch! All adornments returned — whether from this quested Ability OR from the crafted Adornment Dislodgers — became NO TRADE. Feedback on this choice has continued at a dull roar and it looks like we can expect some more flexibility…
From Kander on the EQ2 Forums:
We’re going to change it so that it now returns heirloom instead of no trade. Look for this soon.
We are are also looking into making green adorns heirloom.
As to [making removed adornments] trade-able, we may have some info for you with the fall release. More later.
About time.
A few Devs are under the delusion that players only run one main character per account*. And the other characters are inconsequential.
* That fuzzy logic continues in Landmark.
If only they would make the quest yellow, blue, green, red gems, and some gear rewards heirloom.
For the LOW LOW price of 110 DBG CASH you can make one war rune heirloom and tradable if you act now
Now if they would just make yellow/blue/green malice gems tradable again. That would be even better. Having 13 level 100’s makes it a pain to get the gems needed for each one.
Agree. I have a stack of no-trade red gems that are now worthless to me but could be used for an alt. I don’t understand why these gems are not heirloom!…the “they are quested” items is BS in my opinion.
I concur. The Far Seas Ferrin I earn FROM THE VERY SAME QUESTS are quested items . . . are we making those no trade, too?
Weak explanation of a weak decision . . .
And someday a certain you-know-who dev, using the same illogic of no-trade gems, could make ferrin no trade … and charge a fee to make no-trade items heirloom … (tongue-in-cheek I hope)
I was under the impression that ferrin are classified as currency, not items. Good try at logic though. I wouldn’t let this failure discourage you from trying again. 🙂