Soul Metal

The Incar, which are more commonly called Soul Metal, are one of the greatest creations from the age of dwarven magic. It was created by Nathan Truestrike during the time of the Firstborn War. Its creation directly lead to the Brothers' War and the near destruction of the dwarves. The secret for creating Soul Metal was lost with Nathan when him and his brother were killed at the start of the war.

The Soul Metal are intelligent and capable of changing its shape to fit what it wanted to do. The dwarves employed them to power and control vast machines in the dwarven lands as they can store a great deal of magical power.

Even the hope of re-creating them was lost when the dwarven god, the Earthmother Raoghnaild, tore magic away from the dwarves and drove them from her.

There has been one case of Soul Metal appearing during the Age of Heroes. An itinerant wanderer found enough of it that a dark wizard was able to activate one of the dwarven war machines and nearly destroyed a town before he was stopped. The current location of the soul metal is unknown.

What truly sets the Incar apart from all other magical creations is that it possess true life. To this end it can reproduce itself and produce viable off-spring. Nathan Truestrike proved that at his demonstration before his fellow Masters of the Forge. It takes a great deal of magical power, but each individual is able to store a great deal of magical power such that only a score of them are needed to produce a single off-spring.

It is unknown if the Incar possess any sort of self-awareness. They can communicate, learn, adapt, and reproduce - but they do not appear to have the knowledge of self. Instead it seems that each individual Incar possesses some form of self-awareness only of the whole. All Incar are simply The Incar. Each Incar can produce viable offspring, but even the new offspring only think of the whole as aware.

As the Incar seem to possess only a very limited range of telepathy between each other. It is possible that their awareness of the Incar only extends to the range of their current group. An Incar on its own would just assume it is The Incar, but when it comes within range of other Incar it would believe that all are The Incar with no belief in any other.