The Age of Establishment

With the end of the Age of Strife with the unification of the clans, came the start of the Age of the Establishment. During the Age of Establishment, great homes were carved out of the mountainsides, as there were no longer any need for warring, and the great clans of the Demiurg needed stable homes to reside in. This gave rise to a new profession, the Masons. The Masons were masters of carving stone and earth, and thus through their efforts, the homes of the clans were created within the mountains. Then, above the Masons, came the Architects, for they saw aesthetic where the Masons only saw earth and stone, and they oversaw the procedures of masonry, that the homes of the clans would be made beautiful and pleasing to the eye. They were as much homes as sheer designs the size of mountains. The important instrumental metal discovered at this age was the Diamond, when once previously it was the Iron. With Diamond sharp tools they could carve into the mountains and create holds of beauty from the designs of the Architects. As Demiurgian masonry became more advanced, more and more was placed the emphasis on aesthetic, as it developed. Thus came the Sculptors, Demiurg who made aesthetic design a priority above all else, using Diamond Scalpels they shaped whole rock and granite into stone sculptures of exquisite skill and beauty.

Then just like it was during the Age of Strife with the Blacksmiths, there came the idea of a masterwork, attainable only to the most determined and skilled of the Sculptors. It was called the Diamond Sculpture, made by shaping pure Diamond into a figure or statue that only the most tremendously skilled could hope to achieve, in both difficulty and beauty, by using a Diamond Scalpel. Using a Diamond Scalpel itself as a means of shaping this lump of pure Diamond required tremendous devotion and skill, due to its sheer difficulty and tiresomeness, and the man who was to achieve this lofty goal is none other than the very first Sculptor himself, Ungrim Arthentul. He crafted this statue according to his own likeness, in homage to his stature as one of the Mountain Kings, and as representative of his own personal achievement as a pivotal means towards his goal of fulfilling the Masterwork. The Diamond Sculpture, masterwork of the Sculptors, was placed within the great hall of Karak-a-Karaz, "The Stronghold of the Ancestors", the Stronghold of the Ancestor Clan of Agnir Firehammer, in homage to his role in uniting the clans.

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Just as Agnir Firehammer was renown for uniting the disparate clans through warfare, Ungrim Arthentul was known for his Establishment, which listed the laws that would establish and settle the clans into order, and for his grand act of administering as his first act, the establishment of the creation of the Mountain Holds that would serve as homes for the clans during this great Age. Agnir was thus known as the Forge of War, while Ungrim was known as the Stoneform Lawgiver, and his Age in his station as the second Mountain King, the Age of Establishment. The Establishment Laws are written in Runic script within a book of Diamond, held within the hands of the Diamond Sculpture. Among the Written Laws of the Establishment, is the importance of the "Diamond Sculpture" Guild of Masons, Architects and Sculptors, as being one of the core foundations of Demiurg civilisation, together with the Clansmen Warriors of the Oathhold Clans, divided between the greater Ancestor Clans and the lesser Stronghold Clans. The upholders of the Establishment was left to a small offshoot Guild comprised from the Clansmen Warriors of the Ancestor Clans, established by Ungrim, the "Thunder Fist" Guild of Judges, said to trace its ancestral "lineage" from Valaya, Ancestor Goddess of hearth and home, and above all, protection. New initiates into this Guild had to be judged incorruptible by the Stoneform Lawgiver himself, and they judged order on the rest of the Demiurg with absolute justice, while the “Diamond Sculpture” Guild of Masons worked their great art and craft within the Earth Workshops.