Sith

Sith is the goddess of the forge and the youngest of the elder gods.

## Aspects

Sith has at least two aspects in other pantheons: Gera Forgemother and Crema the Red. It is interesting to note that Sith's different aspects either have significantly more autonomy than the aspects of other deities, or are willing and able to work together without communication to achieve Sith's aims.

Gera Forgemother appears as a middle-aged dwarven lady with a long, red beard and longer hair on her head. Views of her differ significantly depending on whether she is spoken of in the context of the dwarven stories, or in the context of the nordic stories. In the nordic stories, she is a strong, independent figure who rebels against the establishment to better herself and those she cares about, and is said to bless the people of Nordmarch with the lodestones they use to be some of the greatest sailors on the world. Amongst the dwarves though, Gera isn't thought of so fondly: she is a sometimes ally, sometimes enemy of Irsman Dwarfather, and is said to be the ultimate cause of his perceived distance from his people.

Crema the Red is Sith's draconic aspect. She is depicted as a red dragon with a slight purplish tinge to her scales. She is said to be a jealous, angry goddess who will do whatever it takes to acquire what she wants for her hoard, something the red dragons greatly respect. In her interactions with deities outside the draconic pantheon, she is universally seen as an enemy to be defeated.

## Myths

Sith was the firstborn child of Derwo and Eave. Soon after she was born, she found that the world was starting to collapse back into the chaos of Nul, and so she built the first sphere around it to protect it from destruction. She created the sphere in her workshop in Mount Vulcan, and once it was complete and she'd saved reality, she decided to relax and make what she wanted to.

Soon after the creation of the First Sphere, Irsman Dwarfather manifested and started shaping his realm of Dowerah between Erah and Derwo. This resulted in Derwo being forced from the first sphere and into the chaos outside, resulting in both Derwo and her realm almost being destroyed. Sith worked quickly to save her mother, and the result of her successful attempt was the creation of the Second Sphere. It was thought that this act of Irsman is what made Sith's later aspects work against him. It was the creation of the Second Sphere that prompted the creation of Sith's orrery, so she could better monitor the planes and make sure everything was functioning properly.

After the creation of the Second Sphere, Morea came to Sith's workshop desiring to buy some jewellery. There, Sith fell in love with Morea, and the feeling was mutual. They were soon married, and from their union was born Urnalan, the fire god who enhances Sith's works.

Crema the Red kidnapped Meno when they went out into Dowerah to prove themself to their father. She tormented them physically and mentally until the dwarven pantheon assaulted her lair to rescue them. Many dwarven gods were gravely wounded in the rescue, but they were successful. On the way back to Irsman's halls though, Gera Forgemother kidnapped the broken dwarf and fled with them back to her fortress beneath Mount Vulcan. Gera's supporters say it was because Meno was on the verge of dying and taking him as quickly as possible for lifesaving surgery was the only way to save him, and she didn't have time to explain things to Irsman. There, she rebuilt them with metal and helped them deal with the trauma. The result, at the dwarf's request, was them being rebuilt as Mina, a golemtech dwarf deity. Mina went with Gera to Irsman's halls to try to explain why she did what she did, but Irsman became enraged, and accused Gera of brainwashing his child. The two returned to Mount Vulcan, where Mina has lived alongside Sith ever since. It is believed by the dwarves that, when Ferra Flamesmith was kidnapped by Urstar Smokemaker under similar circumstances to Meno's kidnapping, Irsman refused to attempt to rescue her, fearing that she would end up in a similar situation to his understanding of Mina's.

After Giha saved the cosmos from Nict's conquest, Sith was given custody of Alos, the god of destruction who, if left unchecked, would quickly bring the end of existence. She was asked to build a prison to keep him in that would last until the end of days. Sith trapped Alos within her orrery, in the central axis point of Erah, the representation of her own home.

When Reganus created Arapsi, the first multi-layered plane, Sith was greatly impressed by the young god's mastery of planar engineering, and created a Third Sphere to prevent his achievement from being lost. Reganus took that as Sith accepting his statement that he was the king of the gods. The third sphere was much less regulated than the first and second, and a multitude of new planes started being created over there.

When Kelvyn created his tavern, Sith decided to create an entirely new, tiny sphere for it that wasn't bound to any of the other spheres, but would instead move randomly. This allowed the tavern to exist without messing with any of the three spheres.

One of the more recent myths of Sith is about the creation of the Warforged. Sith created Argent, the first prototype warforged, and gave him a number of blessings to help with his functionality. By monitoring Argent's progress and behaviour, she was able to refine her ideas, and when she was happy, she applied what she had learned to build Vitruvius, the warforged god, who serves as the guardian of her home. She also created a number of other warforged and sent them out into the world.

## Dealings with the Party

Sith's earliest interaction with the party was her creation of Runfinn, and sending him out to study runes for her. He returned with his findings shortly before meeting the party in Vulcana.

The party then made their way up the mountain to Sith's home. After making their way past Vitruvius, they found Sith and Mina having an argument: Mina was complaining that Sith makes too much mess and that she *still* hasn't expanded the kitchen like she said she would 300 years ago, and Sith was saying that she's too busy to expand the kitchen, before getting distracted by something shiny. Runfinn came to his creator, who made sure there was nothing wrong with him and gave him a tune up, and explained that the party was there to make sure that the spheres weren't collapsing after a partial manifestation of a Great Old One nearby. Sith started reassuring them before noticing that Zed was an anvilwrought and asking him a number of questions about who built him, how he functioned, and if she could dismantle him. Zed made the mistake of questioning her ability to dismantle him. Sith then grabbed him and took him to pieces. She then got distracted by the party asking her questions and had to be reminded to put Zed back together. Keeper then questioned how she knew the spheres were fine, she she picked him up and took him to her orrery, where Keeper saw all of existence and got quite philosophical. After reassuring the party that everything was fine and telling them that she'd build an additional monitoring device to keep track of everything, she answered some questions about an ancient proto-Yemanic settlement nearby, and then the party left.

## Personality

Sith tries to be helpful, but is easily distracted and leaves many things in half-done messes, much to Mina's annoyance. Sith is deeply in love with her wife, and misses her on her lengthy absences from Mount Vulcan.

Sith is incredibly intelligent and capable, having been the one who has singlehandedly been keeping existence from dissolving since before recorded history. She has also built a god, Vitruvius, completely from scratch, and has created not only the warforged race, but also many, many anvilwrought.