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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jochannan" data-source="post: 2441437" data-attributes="member: 34068">In his forge, Jo'Karr works tirelessly forging new things, things of beauty and things of terror.  From the forge, the angels fly to all inhabited worlds, appearing to individuals and groups, conveying inspiration to all who see them, but never staying long enough to interact.  In the wake of such an encounter, a young human woman in the wilds grinds some soft, smelly rocks together with left over charcoal from the fire pit in her hut, and accidentally drops two spark-stones near the mixture as she is grinding.  The mixture explodes loudly and with much smoke.  Soon, the girl learns to make thin leather pouches of the powder, and with some spark stones inside, makes primitive 'boom-powder' grenades.  With this new discovery, the barbarians of her tribe make war on the city dwellers of the nearby empire of Kyto, and confound their enemies with their seemingly magic weapons.  In one battle, the barbarians bomb Kyto's position, and he is killed.  Without their leader, the empire quickly falls into dissaray, as Kyto did not establish procedure for selecting an heir.</blockquote>