Authus Ve Alo'lumin

In an age long since forgotten, a people of advanced technology and culture ruled the skies of earth. These children of the sky were know as the Ariels. They were winged beings who shown like the sun and, coincidentally, used the sun for many things. They used it to power their cities, bake their food, dry their clothes, and most importantly... mine. You see, the Ariels loved all things that glittered or shimmered, which is why all their buildings (among the many thing they made) were all made from glass, iron, gold, and diamond. To get all these materials, excluding glass, they had to mine for them. One of their most famous mining structures was Authus Ve Alo'lumin (translation: The Spire Of The Golden Sun), which is what the Ariels called it, but everyone else who knew anything about it called it The Wrath Of The Sun. The reason that both these names incorporated the word 'sun' in them is because this colossal structure contained many magnifying lenses, which when alined at noon would concentrate the sun's light into a unbelievably powerful beam of energy that had the capability to cut through the earth's crust in under a minute. Now the reason it was so famous is because the Ariels never created a mining structure more powerful and efficient than Authus Ve Alo'lumin, but there was one incident that was recorded in many historical texts, most notably the Bible. One day when Athus Ve Alo'lumin was in the process of being moved by the golden constructs called Vol'aur (translation: Coal Fueled) to a new mining location a mighty storm came into being throwing the Vol'aur off course. Now, the Vol'aur didn't exactly have the best programing (make no mistake, it was extremely advanced for it's time), which only used a set altitude, direction, and distance to go anywhere and so they ended up get very confused as the storm spun them around and around. Eventually, they came to the eye of the storm, which was right over the city of Sodom, and left Authus Ve Alo'lumin there for they had traveled their set distance. After a little while the Ariels who were awaiting Authus Ve Alo'lumin's arrival began to wonder why it hadn't arrived on time, so they decided to go looking for it. they flew along the path that it should have been traveling on, and eventually reached the storm where the saw it's top sticking out above the clouds. Wondering why it was their, they flew over to it, or rather were thrown into it by the mighty storm. Their first impulse was to get it our of there, and therefore began to pull it out of the storm. Just as they began to pull, the sun took it's position directly above Authus Ve Alo'lumin, as it was noon. The sun's light shot strait through the magnifying lenses and right on to the city of Sodom. The Ariels were completely unaware of this as the spire was behind them and concentrated sunlight doesn't make any noise, and kept on flying right into the storm. And so, having not learned their lesson the first time, they (and the Authus Ve Alo'lumin) were tossed all over the place and the city of Sodom and it's neighboring city Gamorrah. Of course the Ariels tried to apologize for way happened, but there was anyone really to apologize to and so all the eye witnesses of the event took them for angels. This event was recorded in both the history books of men and Ariels, and is why Authus Ve Alo'lumin is referred to as The Wrath Of The Sun (or Son in some texts to infer the son of God) by the men who later read about the spire and it's involvement in the event in the old history books of the Ariels. And that is the story of the great mining spire, Authus Ve Alo'lumin.

Additional Notes

This story is purely a work of fiction and was in no way intended to be taken as truth of any kind. The destruction of the cities Sodom and Gamorrah although was a real event and is written recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible.