A Dwemer Tale (Story and char)

Deus ex machina aut machina deum?
(The title reads in Latin: God of the machine or the Machine God? And yes, there is a meaning to the distinction between the two. )
Terms to note:
Black Soul: Human soul.
White Soul: Non-human soul
Soul Gem: gem used to hold souls very important in any enchanting or magi-tech endeavor.

You are a resident of the kingdom of Dwemervia, a magical plane of existence created outside of Nirn by the great tonal architect of old, Kagrenac. You are most likely a Dwemer, or, at the very least, you once were. Dwemer means "deep elf", and when their people dwelled in the plane of Nirn, despite their average stature, they were nicknamed "dwarves" because of their complex underground cities. Long ago, the Dwemer fought a war with another race of elves, and despite their advanced technology and numbers, were defeated and would have faced annihilation by the hands of the Chimer if Kagrenac had not used an ancient artifact, Lorkhan's Heart to create Dwemervia. Lorkhan's heart was left in Nirn, but Kagrenac still had hope that it could be recovered. He built a strange device called the Singer at an alter right in front of the throne. It was Kagrenac's hope that in their carelessness looting, that the Chimer would destroy Lorkhan's Heart. The Heart is the heart of one of the gods (called Aedra by the Dwemer and the races of Nirn), and therefore is eternal. If destroyed, it would try to return to it's owner in the immortal plane. The Singer was designed to fool the Heart into thinking that Dwemervia was that plane. Unfortunately, the Heart never came. It was thought that Kagrenac had failed and the Heart has almost been forgotten in the hundreds of years that have passed since Dwemervia was created... until now.

In the hundreds of years since Dwemervia was created, their steam and oil powered technology has not advanced*.The "Calling", the old Dwemer ability of telepathy, was weakened to the point of only being able to be used to talk to people who would be witihin voice range anyway except for a few exceptional people who can still use the "Calling" as it was originally used. Most of note is Grand Prince Psvmir himself. The loss of the human and Orc servants that they had in Nirn along with the loss in the "Calling" ability that was central to organization made it a full time job just to keep the technology that they have maintained. Having no other sentient races in the plane with them, the blades and axes of old have become dull and the Steam Centurions (giant steam golems) lie dormant, barely, slowly, but surely becoming worse and worse for ware. But one year ago, the Grand Prince Psmvir announced that new technology had become available that does not require steam or oil to run it. In the demonstration, a row of extremely humaniod golems moved in line swiftly, preforming coordinated movements and acrobatic feats that no other golem has ever been able to do. They are extremely lifelike, even having male and female forms in some of them, but they are clearly made of Dwarven Metal and the joints are clearly made of some new type of Dwarven gyroid. Their faces are always in the form of a proud smile...