The elves desired more time to engage with their various arts, festivals and wondrous magics, and to distance themselves from the labour their civilization required as much as possible. To achieve this, they attempted to emulate the legend of the great forge god, who created metal men in its image to do its bidding. Despite the great pride the fey folk had in their ability, the forging of these metal elves went catastrophically awry and created rebellious and murderous automatons.
These robotic elves fled from the forest and into the mountains. There, they conquered a dwarf outpost deep underground and used the resources to develop a lifeless civilization of steel factories. They developed technology such as imitations of curved elven blades, a pair for each warrior, as well as metal mountain lions as attack animals. It is theorized that the ferocity of the mountain lions they contended with on their way to the mountains made a large impression on them.
Once, in a great battle against invading elves, the automatons were pushed deeper into the depths of the underworld and accidentally roused from its slumber a humongous being. It was a gigantic arachnid creature that devoured the elves and left the inorganic race alone. They saw it as their savior and made it their deity, augmenting it with their technology and turning it into a monstrous war machine.
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These "elves" are completely metallic and camouflage themselves in fuligin hues to blend with the darkness. They are frighteningly quick with a pair of curved swords and occasionally employ metal tools that emulate spells. Some say they take living beings alive to do... something with them. Some say that they are assimilated into machinery, others say that it's something to do with machines fueled by blood, but all we know is that they never come back.
They can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, and the last thing you hear before they get you is the horrible buzzing sound of their voices:
"Drzzzt".
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