The Age of Enlightenment

Having gone with the Age of Darkness, comes the Age of Enlightenment. One would carry on the work put into motion through honourable, albeit belligerent means, by Hariman Windcarver, the Voidheart Redemptor, Odin Eriksson. Odin Eriksson was the starter of the art of the process of refining raw ores of metals, for the sake of their use in the machines of the "Living Mechanism" Guild of Engineers and Mechanicians. Consumed with his goal of a masterwork of the Refiners, or Chemists, he went about in the Water Refineries as they were called, distilling and filtering and sifting and brewing, until he achieved the ultimate transmutation of lead into gold. This art as it was known was called alchemy, a mystical variant of the science of chemistry, practised by the higher ranked Chemists, called Alchemists. It was believed by them that the ultimate metal was none other than the very rarest, gold, also the most beautiful. It was said that realising the Golden Elixir, masterwork of the Philosophers, was akin to achieving eternal life. This was the main preoccupation of the Demiurg race at this point, for due to their unique origins of being made from the fusing of the elements, had slowly ran out of the electric energy that spark their magnetic hearts, and having slowly given in to the decline of entropy, and being made of stone and earth in the first place, had not the means to replenish the population. A great fear of the void of death overcame them, and they sought to a saviour who would deliver them from the judgement of death. All of a sudden, in their moment of desperation, a man imbued with golden lustre like an aura about his being came forth from the Water Refineries, a man known to them as Odin Eriksson.

He came speaking in vehement oratories that inspired the spark of creation within them, of a so-called hidden and last masterwork of alchemy, the Golden Elixir. "I have imbibed of it, and drank drunk from its distillation of inspiration. It is the wine of the Gods themselves, a great potion that gifts immortality and eternal life, through inspiring them with the divine breath of Creation. This golden liquid flowing down to the very crystal hearts we bear, rejuvenates and cleanses us anew, shining as gold, the blue gold of cleansing rain."

This was said in respect to the fact that the Demiurg were made into wholeness through a divine rain that occurred in the atmosphere of their world when the elemental process of their creation was occurring. The Demiurg were created by the fusing of the elements within a single being of Gemstone heart and earth flesh, they had come to learn from the findings of the Crystalgazers. They had magnetic properties thus generated by their heart, and could attract stones and earth to regenerate their bodies from injury, and lost body parts, but they had no real means of reproduction. "Gifted with the tongue of gold, from this very liquor of fluid eloquence itself, I thus come forth with the Midas' Touch, transmuting the laden lead of your heavy burdens into the most luxuriant gold of luminous self. Thus inspired, you can no longer look back upon your past regressions, having attained the fruit of Enlightenment through this Golden Elixir that I present to you forth in the manifestation of moving speeches, that soars your spirit into heights of rapture and ecstasy."

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"That is the true secret of immortality, its true gold and goal. Inner purity and refinement of self and nature, allowing you to transcend the bodily cage of existence that now declines in. Like that primordial divine rain that first descended upon the earthen mould of our then lifeless bodies, gifting us the breath of life, we too can renew our aging vessels with the Golden Elixir, for in truth, it is but all along within you. Only the truest seekers are able to distill the riddle of my words, encrypted in the Runic tongue, for it is indeed written in the code of the Runic language, Khuzdulid."

In this way the cycle of Fire and Water, was complete. The secret of the Golden Elixir is this: that it does not exist except metaphorically, within the hearts of the Demiurg themselves. The process of distilling the Golden Elixir is equivalent to the process of refining the soul, purifying it of the lesser and baser impurities gathered through the action of Causality, or Cause and Effect. Having attained this truth, the soul is liberated and gains eternal life, having found a means of rejuvenating itself through the shedding of the old earth of body, and attracting new metals and rocks to its foundation, and through a constant mental state of livelihood and fervent engagement with life and reality, does one continually spark the soul's light of creation and life. Through this means in fact, the First Philosopher Odin Eriksson actually attained the highest masterwork of all, the creation of the fabled Golden Elixir. By rearranging animated parts of Gemstones and bonding them to a Gemstone heart, through the art of the Animators, and then crystallising the essence into whole, the Demiurg were able to replicate the effects of reproduction, by imbibing the new Demiurg with the Golden Elixir, which was discovered to be of the same constitution as the divine rain that started their race, except this time it is through an internal transmutation, through transfusing the Golden Elixir into the body of the new Demiurg.

These new Demiurg created this way were far more powerful than the crude earth and stone bodies of the previous Demiurg, and were called Daewar, or Men of War.