User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-30014014-20161010214408/@comment-28358106-20161011010522

"All right..." I take a deep breath.

"My expedition had more or less drained my funds, so I had no choice but to return home. When we did, I took the Obelisk with me, so I could learn the writing that was inscribed on it.  Upon returning, I studied it with the intention of hoping to discover more, when something happened.  One day, I woke up to go about my research as usual, when something...astonishing had happened overnight.  The writing on the Obelisk was now in the common tongue, and perfectly readable.  Furthermore, the writings were a set of conversion formulas expounding on the energy-altering properties of Orichalcum, and how it can when manipulated, among other things, self-replicate and read a person's spirit energy signature and combine as well as transmute different kinds of energy.  It was almost as if the Obelisk now had instructions on how to make a certain kind of replication device.  A device that was now within my means to create."

"And so I did. Using some of the miracle metal from the Obelisk, I fashioned the mechanism that allows a Golem to read her husband's spirit energy signature and combine it with her own to make a rune core around which a Golem child could be built.  Regina and I had always wanted a child, and now it was within our grasp.  She asked that I install it in her, and I did.  Within a week, she was pregnant, and within the two month gestation period, the rune core was born."

"It was born exactly how I had designed it to be. On it were the specifications for our first child.  But something was amiss."

Aegis: "This part is so cool..."

Me: "The rune core's specifications called for one hundred and sixty three pounds of the purest Orichalcum to fashion the Golem child's body...some of the rarest metal in existence in its pure form.  I had used some of the Obelisk to create the birth mechanism, but I still had had some left...exactly one hundred and sixty three pounds left, to be precise.  It was with this metal, along with black gold, that I fashioned Aurum, our first and oldest daughter."

I fold my hands. "I suppose the rest is fairly self evident. We've grown as a family since then."