Among The Burning Flowers

They cursed the newcomers for mining on Mount Fruma, for they saw in that peak a petrified god, the giant who had created their people. Forced to work inside the mines, the Yscals had sliced their own skin to atone, fearing the displeasure of their god. The god Fruma had lit her eyes, allowing her to see in the dark, and taught her to smelt iron to defeat the invading Gulthaganians. When she finally reached her apartments, drained and aching from the climb, she doubled over and vomited on to the floor.