Three Aeons - 2nd Era, 2nd Day

The Obelisk of Machines thrums to life. Its vibrations resonate throughout the crystalline life forms surrounding it. The crystalline structures are slowly altered, making iteratively more complex formations.

Bit by bit, these formations start to connect and interact with others, creating wondorous mosaics. Golden spirals and fractals abound as shards merge and intertwine.

Indifferent to the fact that they are bereft of the soul spark at the center of all elementals, they nevertheless start to show increasing intelligence as they augment and construct themselves.

Χαος's Obelisk of Machines begins to mutate the surrounding crystal life forms.

The machines immediately hum to life, housed in crystal, the Shardi are born. They immediately understand who it was that gave them intelligence and slowly begin a pace of self improvement and self augmentation. Their intelligence is vast but their thinking is slow and their movement slower.

As time passes for living celluar 'regular' creatures much faster than all elementals except dragons (who see all time) it is equally divergent between elementals and the Shardi, but they already discern the nature of the world and how they came into being.