...Four thousand years had passed since the invention of written language within the Nix Civilization. Their long, dark night was finally broken by the advent of electricity, bringing the first true light of dawn.
However, during those four thousand years, the worship of "magma" had become deeply ingrained among their religious institutions, a vast majority of the common people, and the ruling class. Since electrical energy was ultimately derived from geothermal heat, the invention of generators didn't cause any immediate theological crises.
To the Nix, magma was equivalent to primitive humanity's reverence for "fire" or the "sun." In fact, it was even more profound—it was the core of their faith.
Magma was a tangible force the Nix could interact with; it was their literal source of life! Given their primitive understanding of chemistry, they couldn't comprehend how anything could remain scorching hot for millennia without consuming itself, yet magma... somehow did it!
