"The reason was simple, and the logic behind it was simple too. Why had Sin Fortress originally been built in that barren land near the Gray Desert? Was it really because that godforsaken place, shrouded in sandstorms all year round, was so blessed with outstanding people and natural beauty?
No, no, no!
That wasn't it at all. The truth was simply that the first dwarves exiled for one reason or another had accidentally found some 'wondrous' things there.
They had no idea what those things were.
The halflings hadn't developed their steam engineering back then, either. Our ancestors had only thought those things were powerful and sacred!
They saw them as 'divine revelations' and built a city there."
Outside the cavern, the great slave lord Fenris Ironfist gulped down the flying wine Murphy had given him and spun a tall tale about the secrets of the Sin Dwarves for him and the Revered Lord.
Perhaps to lend his words more weight, the sly, greedy fellow rolled his eyes and put on a mysterious air as he said:
"This is the greatest secret of the Sin Dwarves!
Only the five Sin Lords of each generation are allowed to know. I heard from my predecessors that the pioneers of Sin Fortress discovered those things in Year Two Hundred of the Era, but they didn't learn how to use them until around the time of the First Black Calamity.
It took more than three hundred years, and thank goodness dwarves have never lacked patience.
Of course, some say it was all the Mother Goddess's guidance and trials, but honestly, I don't see it that way.
Those things were obviously left behind by the Creator. The Mother Goddess's divine power doesn't extend into that domain, not to mention their incredible effects—"
"You mean the