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Mater Lei landed amidst the cypresses, pleased to find another deity already birthed and active. As she passed his creatures, she chose one out of every five and made it into either a [url=http://www.dinosaurjungle.com/prehistoric_animals_hyracotherium.php]hyrac[/url] or a [url=https://arkencounter.com/blog/2014/10/15/forgotten-fauna-chalicotheres/]chalicothere[/url], creatures slower but more suited for life in thick woodland and swamp. She let them retain their ease of taming, and as the little dawn-horses clambered through the thickets and the chalicotheres pushed over saplings in the swamp, she sent the original horses out of her citadel, and enriched the grasses beyond to speed them on their way.

And then she walked on, to their creator.

[color=thistle]"Faliir..."[/color] she said, with a bow, tasting the name even as she spoke it. [color=thistle]"...You don't wait around, do you? Three minutes into existence and you're already a father. I'd advise Seidhara and Kap Gam to get away, but..."[/color] A transparent black figure of the Centaur arose from her palm. [color=thistle]"...Judging by who mothered your first son, I'm not quite so concerned."[/color]

Lei didn't chuckle, but you could feel her smirking through her mask. She turned away and waved to the young god behind her. [color=thistle]"Regardless, you've created something special. May your light-"[/color] Something scampered between the trees in front of her, and Lei stopped dead.

[color=thistle][i]"An automaton!"[/i][/color]

Mater Lei scurried after the painter-golem, and Faliir's introduction was cut short.

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Lei chased the little golem, securing it with a pounce. It struggled for a little while in her arms as she opened its mind and saw what lay inside.

A daughter of Lasis, wrought to rebel. [colour=thistle][i]Against whom?[/i][/colour] Anyone. [colour=thistle][i]Always?[/i][/colour] Yes. [colour=thistle][i]Hmmm.[/i][/colour]

Lei let the little thing go, then watched as it graffitied a wall of her brutalist citadel. With a snap of her fingers, the fog of her magic grew thick around the golem, and covered the entire wall with art in its style- not a replication, just a homage. The golem looked around in fright as it saw that it was now painting the same patterns that adorned the wall for fifty metres around, and promptly changed its style.

Lei followed invisibly as the golem went about its business. Every time it changed style, she replicated it; when it took up sculpture instead, she littered the forest with every shape it could think of making; when it started defiling the art she had made, she wiped it clean; when it ignored her entirely she forced its hand; when it fought back she let it do so to its hearts content.

On and on she went with the charade, normalising everything the golem could do until all the only thing left to defy was its own miserable existence. The golem threw itself from the highest floor of the Keep, and the Goldari below obliged it gladly.

[color=thistle][i]Just as planned.[/i][/color]

Mater Lei hummed a merry tune as she danced her way back to the garden below.

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Lei bombards Faliir with father-related innuendo. Prior to doing so, she notices that, horses being steppe animals, they probably aren't going to do so well in the swampy forest inside her citadel, and sends them out along with the grass species required to form a prairie for them elsewhere. Some remain, and are turned into offshoot horses, hyracotheres and chalicotheres. They can still be domesticated, though. [b]1 Miracle spent on creating steppe flora. 1 Miracle spent on offshoot horses.[/b]

She also discovers Lasis's golems, and bullies one until it commits suicide. It turns out to be a very interesting experiment and fills her head with all kinds of ideas. Goddess of Automata, everyone.

[b]Mater Lei
2 Might
2 Miracles
Level Four
3.5/8 Acts of Creation[/b]
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