Cancer 18. Gnomes creating beautiful and ornate metalwork.
Deep in the mountain’s belly furnaces are being continually fed to keep the forges glowing, as artisans hammer the heated iron, patiently drawing and twisting it into the shapes of flora and fauna that in nature are born and pass away, but in iron will cool and live for untold centuries, impervious to winters and winds and the rot that vanishes living things, records blessed by the gods of death and memory.