Christmastide Valley Coal Mine
The Christmastide Valley Coal Mine is a natural mine on the outer edge near the First Heart of Christmas Spirit and is a long way from the Second Heart of Christmas Spirit. It was discovered by Dwarves and Christmas Elves accidentally!
Mine Story by Frederick Elian Baumtannen
I, Frederick Elian Baumtannen, set off to further explore my new home with a company of Dwarves and other elves. We took four sleighs and set off with two reindeer per each sleigh. We were in the very outer edges of the valley. The Dwarves felt Earth on the other side.
When they say Earth, it means anything from minerals to rocks to crystals and gems to anything Earthen. Regular rocks won’t signal to them. But if anything is special about an area, they’ll sense it.
Anyway…
We stopped and they did what they normally do, Just tunnel creation. Cool to see them do it once but it can get boring. They stop. We’re like what do you mean? That was barely ten minutes!
They know it didn’t take them long. But not why. So, we walk through the portal and enter the tunnel. Our entire group followed it down to an open section known then as Vault Dome Room. In this room, we found black stuff that we thought was coal. We knew nothing about this mine and knew Nicholas would want to hear about it.
So, we walked back. And myself and two elves flew one sleigh right outside the workshop.
Nicholas listened to us and he came with Father Winter.
As we descended down, we knew nothing until Mother Nature came. She found us easily. She told us her mother (Mother Earth) had left it there for a special person. It is coal.
All Dwarves suddenly had their pickaxes and began mining, They were hard at work and we elves left and got some older bags. We came back and chose to shovel the coal into bags. Days passed. The Dwarves finally stopped and helped us shovel and bag. Nicholas never came back but we stored the coal in a little building by the workshop.
At some point, we started using the coal to warm our buildings. Then we eventually used it to light lamps.
This mine is still there.
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This looks like it meant to have more but I love the little story embed. It makes me think of the little short books you find in TES games where they only feature a few pages but its little bits of worldbuilding that give life to the game so that you're doing more than just grinding.