Moth Gold Research Paper

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“Amidst the Epoch of Ash, Satyrium and Bahran miners ventured to Geren’has and staggered into an old grot that spoke to them in a hushed tone, a draught that seduced the Sun Elves and Ek’Zahlni into its drear shadows. And delved from the cave’s nethermost region did they discover an unsullied gold that whispered into the ears of moths. The miners revealed that, when in one’s hand, this ‘Moth Gold’ would alter its form into any thought the wielder concocted in his brain. At that moment, avarice and paranoia tore the group asunder, dividing the two races to whelm the cave with blood, soaking the cobwebs of trembling spiders and slithering across the stony crags that hung from above.
“Few escaped from the ghastly horror and few managed to obtain and conceal fragments of the Moth Gold. They ran tirelessly until they attained presence with the High Sun Kings in Satyrium and Lahnu’Bahra of Bahra, demanding for bloodshed due to an
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Even the Sol’as that held the settlements and sanctuaries plummeted to the ground, engendering explosions that asphyxiated the wildlife and a sound that could be heard even in the western coast of The Forge—perhaps even further.
“The end of Satyrium arrived when the Sol’as of the High City’s soared towards the blood-soaked dirt, maiming itself and discarding the vicious souls and innocent architecture it had once held to the ground to meet their gruesome end. It was then that Amaria, if she remained alive within that jasper stone, became the only Sun Elf alive.
“It has been widely believed that, upon viewing the spectacle from within the stone, Amaria began to weep over her absent species and the tears that slid down her beautiful face became the curse that taints this land: a corrosive deluge of blood that falls upon the entire continent every Eighth of the Red Moon, eating away at the flesh of anything that bears

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