18 - Suntouched Myr
Overhead, only four mana suns rotated in the sky. A blue sun over the Quicksilver Sea, a red sun over the Oxidda Chain, a black sun that loomed over the Mehpidross and a yellow sun which hung above the Razorfield Plains. The Tangle forest did not have such a sun and the Myr in the Tangle were content with that. In a small secluded area, the Myr's were left alone. None of the Elves nor the Sylvok human tribes ever bothered with the constructs that had taken residence among the copper foliage, and the Myr did not seek to disrupt the peace they had with their neighbors. Of course there have been isolated incidents when a Myr would stray too close to the territories occupied by the Elves of the humans, but such occurrences would be soon forgotten.
The Myr tribe would gather the copper vegetation around their grove and use it to construct random items. On Myr would create a small monument, while another would create various tools and leave them forgotten when it started a new project. Many times the Elves and humans spied on the community but they were only left with questions as to what the Myr's were doing exactly. They were causing no harm and none of their actions seemed intrusive, so it was decided that the Myr tribe would continue its stay in the Tangle.
There were rumors among the Elves that the leader of the Plane, a creature they thought had not existed, was in fact, very real. This rumor even spread to the Myr, but they did not think of such things because each of them were in fact connected to this so-called 'Leader'. The Myrs were his eyes and ears. Even their mundane activities provided Memnarch with information. And despite the innocent appearance of the Myr in the Tangle, they were in fact observing more closely than the Elves or the Sylvok realized.
For countless years, the Myr watched while displaying ignorant acts among themselves should they too be watched. But without warning, the silent communication the Myr had with their creator had ceased unexpectedly. Any normal creature would find this cause for alarm, but not the Myr. This however, was the first warning they would get.
A low rumbling was heard and the ground beneath their metallic feet began to shift slightly, but soon, that rumbling grow louder and the shifting increased in ferocity. The Myr question if this was a random earthquake, but it was not. Something unexpected was occurring deep beneath their feet and the Myr waited like mindless drones for an answer.
When the ground exploded, they got their answer.
A large burst of emerald energy burst from the metal ground and consumed much of the Tangle Forest as well as a portion of the Myr cultivation. But not all of the Myr were destroyed. A few survived as the emerald sphere formed above the trees and took on the form of a green mana sun. The surviving Myr noticed that the sudden exposed to such a large amount of mana at one time had altered the alloy's that made their bodies. They could now absorb a portion of any colored mana, and in turn grow stronger.
From that point on, they have been re-designated as the Suntouched Myr.
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I apologize if this one is not as good as my others, I've been under the weather a bit lately, and also, this one was almost as difficult as the Myr Mindservant. I couldn't think of an actual storyline for this one, so I just 'winged' it, for lack of a better term. Hopefully the next one's will show some improvement.