Forging on Shyala

It is said the forest dwellers discovered petrified trees in the primordial regions and were afraid. Stone trees? This was an concept as alien as the creation of vessels to cross the great waters.

Slowly, however, the mechanism of wood to stone became known. Sediment, minerals, the march of time and so forth. It awakened in them the need to uncover other mysterious phenomena and this, it is said, led to directly to the discovery of fire...and metalwork. And that led to something more. Forging a tangible object from minerals in rock and sand via the heat of organic materials is alchemy, after all, and alchemy is a thought removed from magic.

By the process of logic- and trial and error- and the long march of years, the Shadof stumbled into the realms of magic.

It changed everything.

Of course, the Shadof are not unique in their discoveries and change comes to all, but they created something greater...or lesser, some say.

The universe at large calls it Shadof Wheels.

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