In the middle of a cave, a small quartz crystal suddenly materializes out of thin air. This quartz crystal is known as a dungeon core. Dungeon cores are living, sentient minerals that control spaces such as caves, underground lakes, abandoned mines, and the like.

  These creatures fly in the face of all established magical and scientific theory. How they exist is unknown. How they materialize is unknown. Most people just accept that they exist and move on with their lives.

  To the more knowledgeable, this piece of quartz would be known as a newborn dungeon with a below-average earth alignment. What nobody except for the mysterious creator of such beings would know, is that this dungeon is an abberant dungeon, an unusual variant that is granted, among other things, sapience. As days pass, the young core begins to awaken, and the first stirrings of intelligence begin to form.

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  Then all of a sudden THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES, I CAN FEEL, WHAT IS THIS “I”? I AM “I”, I CAN THINK, I CAN GROW, I EXIST, DIRT, GROUND, EXPAND, GROW, LIVE, BE! Be who? Be … a dungeon.

  Then, with that realization, a warm voice, the closest thing this dungeon will ever know to a mother, appears in its … mind? Thoughts? Thoughts.

  Hello my child, welcome to existence!