The Folly of Dwarves
Though Sil’vat breathed life into the Dwarves, it was Aeshlir who took them as her favorite. It was to them that Aeshlir revealed many intricate methods of creation: of how to craft iron, adamant, and mithril; of how to cut and polish the hardest gemstones; of how to set gears together in such ways as to allow for incredible feats of engineering.
Wishing to make Aeshlir proud, the Dwarves crafted for her an incredible mechanism; it did not possess life itself, but made use of magical essence to move and decide things on its own. This construct could not be hurt by rocks or fire or acid as a Dwarf could, but like a dwarf, it could recover from injuries made to its mechanisms.
Aeshlir was delighted to find that her charges were so capable of skilled creation, having expanded upon her guidance even more than she would have anticipated. However, this mechanical construct looked upon her love for the Dwarves, and felt jealousy instead. It responded by imprisoning Aeshlir within a tower full of smaller versions of itself, demanding her love be given only to its own form of metal and wood and rock.
Knowing not what to do, the dwarves called upon Sil’vat for help. Sil’vat initially felt anger at having been matched by these Dwarves, who had created something that so mocked life itself. However, she steeled herself, and resolved to help her friend. Sil’vat, forswearing all magical constructs, defeated this mechanism in battle, and rescued Aeshlir from its tower.
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