The Creation of Sulfur
The Myth, rooted in the Valka Belief, states that Silny -- his might challenged by another God who dared him to undo lightning with his bare hands, rather than his great blade -- caught an enormous bolt of lightning A'den shot into the world to create what was to be the tallest of the great peaks of The Pale. But when Silny caught the bolt, it struggled savagely to break free and strike its mark. It was then that Silny pressed it between his fingers with such power that he reduced it to a fine dust. To hide his misdeed, Silny spread the powder throughout the world to avoid his father's wrath. Because this great bolt could never roar its thunder, the dust's essence fervently desires it. So when the dust is ignited, it turns once more into its former self, though a fraction of what it could've been.
To this day a gift of sulfur is seen as a great offering to the Valka gods (particularly among the Dwarves), as A'den still seeks what is left of his great lightning so as to craft his grandest design that never war. The often wretched scent it emits when impure is thought to be caused by the burning hate the lightning still holds for Silny.
It is believed amongst Dwarves and Drow that sulfur is a lesser vestige of this lightning, and that a more pure form of the dust exists that contains the true essence of A'den's thunder within it. His son Silny, however, is thought to hate it, especially when used as gunpowder, as it both represents his greatest misdeed against his father and the laziest and least honorable form of warfare in his eyes. Gunners, therefore, rarely worship Silny, and they are few and far between amongst Valkan cultures. Those who ARE gunners (particularly amongst hunters) see their task as holy. They are an embodiment of A'den and their weapons a symbol of his hammer.
"Our Hammers on His Anvil"
There is a popular belief amongst Dwarves that A'den may never recover all the remains of his great lightning and that the Dwarves are his creation to seek its remains out in the small, hidden corners of the world. Once found, the Dwarves remember His great design, as if thought of by themselves, and desire to sculpt it with his thunder upon the mountains of the Pale. Though not technically a part of the religious canon of the Valka, most Dwarves nowadays see the belief as inherently true.
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