Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Benalor/The World Engine (section)

=An Unrecognized Effort=
Once development and experimentation of the Work Engines were complete, Morad would publish his findings and present them to the College for approval. Siev attended the presentation, sitting in the front row of the auditorium. Not only had Siev helped his former teacher with much of the manual labor involved and proofread the article before submission, he had also helped Morad modify existing Shaper spells and even devise new ones in order for the Work Engines to function properly. The crown jewel of Siev's contributions was an intricate spell which allowed for the Work Engines to recognize the Benaloran language and follow orders based on spoken directions. Beforehand, an animated golem would only follow one set of instructions as etched on them. To repurpose a golem was a painstaking task: one would have to use a separate machine to stem the flow of mana going to the golem, file off the old spell from the golem, and etch a new one into it before resuming the mana flow in order for a golem to follow the new directions.

Per Collegiate procedure, the presenter of new findings would list those who had assisted in the project at the end of the lecture. For whatever reason, Siev was not mentioned in that list of names, a fact that had infuriated the young Shaper. For three long and grueling years, he had put his ego and his pride on the shelf to assist Morad to create what was sure to be the greatest innovation in Shaping since the first Shaper etched his first spell onto a pulley system to make it work by itself. And now here was the Senior Shaper taking the credit, especially for developing the most difficult components of this gracious gift to Benalor! He even listed the apprentices and journeymen who had did some of the grunt work on their holidays off!

Nytherio Siev would have none of this!