Demon Engines

This Is an Art Contest Submission

Abstract
The constructs of Bronze and Iron, fueled by distilled black sap, a substance found deep under the earth's surface and guided by the intelligence of demonic beings, all in the name of convenience, could serve as the perfect  example of hedonism which plagued the oldest race race of Kylorn who ultimately destroyed themselves, the Goblins.

Goblin love for Machinery
Barklins, ent like Goblins always where the brightest when it came to technology. What began as a simple interest in scientific philosophy, quickly rose to be the foundation of their culture. Simple contraptions of wood and stone proofed to be of great help in in the fulfilling of their daily needs and the construction of the first underground cities, The Spirals of old.

Developments in machinery
The technological process was not to be stopped, as bronze and iron could support ever greater machinery, while steam engines power them. However they where crude and lacked any amount of intelligence, even the greatest Mechanists knowledge in the arts of steam and redstone wouldn't allow them to truly bring their creations, to life.

The Heart of Artifice
The Barklin problem could have been solved by the Schroomlin own developments in the arcane. The Demonologists of the mushroom like Goblins have managed to store demonic souls in inanimate objects, which resulted in a surge of demon infused goods, from possessed weapons and tools to cosmetics and personal communication devices. The most influential development how ever have undoubtedly been the Demon Engines.

The Age of Hedonism
Demon powered robotic engines where present all over the Goblin city states, taking over most of their hard work, but never having enough energy to truly satisfy the Goblin ambitions, until the discovery of black sap. A hot, black, sap like liquid, commonly found underground or at sea bottom leaking onto the surface which had the potential to fuel anything the Mechanists could have only imagined. As the story goes, a Bloomlin diplomat desperate for alcohol on an official hunting trip with Mosslin royalty has been so bored out that they have decided to distill the Black Sap from one of the local sap fields. After said Bloomlin nearly died, the Barklin doctor who treated them took the new beverage for testing and discovered its incredible ability to create thermal energy through its burning. Black Sap fueled Demon Engines finally had the capacity to allow to fulfil every job the Goblins tasked them with.

The Fall of the Spirals
Demon infused constructs who took over every aspect of Goblin life after decades of service where finally ready for a full demon incursion. Factories have started to produce massive robotic bodies, fused with the flesh of animals. The demonic uprising has been a surprise for the Goblins who couldn't imagine their servants going against their contract where at the brink of full genocide after only the first week of fighting. The tide shifted to favour the Goblins however, after the self proclaimed god Pjur Pjur, the Goblin who has created the concept of speech and wielded it with such power that any word he spoke would become reality. Pjur Pjur was convinced by Zyanya Humienor and her companions to close demonic rifts spewing hordes of monsters into the mortal world by entertaining the insane Goblin with jokes, riddles and chai.

The Cursed Demonic Plagues
Just with one word Pjur Pjur made up on the spot Defenestration all demonic portals where shut like windows in the storm with lower demons being pushed out of them. The fight how ever wasn't over just yet, but the Demon Engines still great in number have finally learned what fear was. One by one they where hunted down and once their end was nae, their leader Astaroth has plagued the lands of Kylorn, granting animals sentience creating monsters fuelled by endless gluttony, and love, envy, and greed, and all other feelings that the plant like Goblins simply didn't posses. This feelings made them hate everything and anything including each others.

The demons plan worked, despite their own destruction, the young races conquered the Goblin temple cities, killed the priests and used the sturdy Goblin bones to forge tools mistaking them for metal. The Goblins had to retreat into the deepest of spirals such as Vaechdar to petrify themselves and whether the storm.

The Modern Demon World
In the modern times, the word of Pjur Pjur weakened, the windows to the other world opened anew and with the rediscovery of long lost Goblin robotics by the younger races, the demons finally had vessels to return to the waking world and enact their revenge on all that was living, creating their paradise of bronze, and iron.