No one was omniscient or omnipotent. Legends could not be, destiny could not be, not even Ao could be.
As for certain events occurring within the Hatak Imperial Nation, Punk, far away in his magic tower researching the Morningstar Golem, was destined to know nothing of them. After all, creating a complete Morningstar Golem was far too complicated. Even "Whisper of Destruction" had no choice but to devote all his energy and time to this fraught endeavor.
Under such circumstances, in order to maintain his concentration, the caster completely sealed off the entire laboratory. His vast perception, which ordinarily covered the entire area surrounding the magic tower, had long since been cautiously drawn back into countless dense rune structures. As for what sort of trouble might arise in the Hatak Imperial Nation, which had been left unattended from the start? The busy "Whisper of Destruction" had ceased to spare time for such "details" long ago.
By the standards of a Legendary professional's sense of time, Punk's dedicated research lasted a full ten thousand years. Throughout those ten thousand years, the reclusive Morningstar Mage maintained the same flawless attentiveness and caution he employed when studying Morningstar Spells, steadily completing the half-finished construct lying on the experiment table. Plates of rune-engraved Morningstar alloy were patiently embedded into the golem core, energy sources from Netheril era Magic Locks were connected to millions of primary energy circuits... To ensure success in a single attempt, he even required every rune in his hands to undergo hundreds of adjustments before being put to use, while the structure of every solidified spell model had to be precise to one-thousandth of a nanometer.
There was no question as to the sheer scale of this colossal project, and the effort Punk invested in it was equally astonishing. As the