I mean. 300+ gigabytes will do that to a storage drive!

*Gasp*, Language!

But did you get better?

Yup! Truth be told, 99% of all the characters I make exist in isolation of one another. Bit of a bad habit >v>

The roclins are my first real go at making a proper world with all its trimmings, mind.

Thanks!

In this setting, they're the *only* species. Sentient at least.

Yeah, it was not fun getting it all over, still not sure what the best approach is xvx

And yup! There's a lot of light dumped out, but not much by way of heat. Not enough to be dangerous at least. The reason for the hardened mushroom leather is to support the weight of the Brightstone plates.

Thanks!

To answer your question, it is visible light. The ritual chambers are thus sealed, and windowless.

- as such, The Forge is the absolute powerhouse of metallurgy in the Deep Dark.

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Not sure I wanna' do this process again on Bluesky, wow.

- From there, extracting the threads of metal becomes substantially easier, with the pure metal being stored in great heated crucibles. It is likewise much easier to shape the metal in its molten form, taking much smaller teams and producing a lot less waste, -

- In the Great City known as 'The Forge', the home of the Depths Roclins, Metal Singing takes on a very different form. Due to the extreme heat and abundance of natural lava flows, Roclins here will melt the raw ores into a liquid slurry. -

- These 'spent' plates are then stored, where they will slowly discharge the stored energy at a safe rate.

Once depleted, and mended with a small amount of extra Brightstone, the plates can be reused. -

- Similarly, Metal Singers also wear protective clothing made from hardened mushroom leather, and lined with similar Brightstone plating.

Once a plate cracks, it signals that they need to be replaced, having absorbed as much excess magic as it can. -

- Protective lenses were previously trialled, but proved ineffective. To ward off the excess energy the rituals produce, ritual chambers are lined with large plates made from Brightstone material, either the eggshells of hatched Roclins, or material gathered when a Brightstone Pillar is 'pruned'. -

- This waste energy has been document to have ill effects on organic life after prolonged exposure, ranging from mild headaches, to symptoms similar to late-stage magical burnout.

For protection, Metal Singers are commonly seen wearing metal blinders to shut out the glare entirely. -

- is enough to blind a person if exposed without protection for long periods of time. And, with Metal Singing being the equivalent of using an entire nuclear reactor to boil a bathtub of water, there's a tremendous amount of 'waste' energy. -

- A ring, for example, could be shaped by a single Roclin. Though the quality will vary greatly depending on the skill of the Singer.

Naturally, such work is not without its risks. The glare produced from such highly focused magic -

- Once the threads of metal have been extracted, they can be then shaped by other teams into whatever the city needs, from jewellery to support beams. The process of shaping is much less intensive, with teams varying in size depending on the project or specialization. -

- This extraction is very precise, and the resulting metal is often of a purity that rivals even our own methods.

Metal Singing (named for the chants used during rituals) isn't just for extraction or refinement, however. -

- a team of experienced Lithomancers (usually of the Highborne caste thanks to their greater capacity of magic.)

and lots of preparation. It involves essentially 'unravelling' the metal component of the ores and extracting the resulting threads to be shaped further by other teams. -