Curiosity of a Dwarf

As Elves are infatuated with poetry and songs and Orcs rave over war, we Dwarves love to make things with our very own hands. Ever since I was young, I immensely enjoyed fooling around with toys with springs or pocket watches. My dream is to make a golem with my own hands someday.

However, I am not talking about the animate, monster golems that you can see frequently. The golems made by the dwarves are automatic dolls that move according to minute mechanical devices. It is totally different from stone golems or granite golems, which were magically blessed with life.

However, I always wondered what the energy source of a magically created golem would be. No matter how carefully I looked at it, I could not find the part that generated power... There are many golems in the Wastelands here. They say it is because the devil Beleth and the magicians of the Ivory Tower used them as weapons of war in this land. If that is true, then that means that more than a thousand years have passed since the golems were abandoned in this land. What do you think? Aren't you getting curious, too? If you grant my request, it will be a great help to my studies... will you help me?

Good! We understand each other well. Actually, I recently had a chance to see a destroyed granite golem, and within the remains I saw a piece of stone of a different hue. I asked Sarien, who has profound knowledge of magic, and he said the stone was a heartstone. I found out that all the golems made by the magicians had a heartstone in the center of their bodies.

What was it that he said? Something about putting a symbolic heart that resembles the living body into a still stone figure, and then gathering the magic forces before beginning the spells... . Of course I didn't understand a word of what he was talking about, but anyway, it seems almost certain that the heartstone is the power source of the golem.

So, I would like you to go into the Wastelands and get me the heartstone of a golem. There are many granite golems in the Wastelands. There are also granite golems that are nicknamed punchers, because they Brandish their fists about fiercely.

Most heartstones shatter or crack when the golem is killed, but very rarely you can obtain whole, perfect heartstones. I would like you to bring me all the heartstones you can find -- whether they be broken or whole. I will compensate you for as many as you bring back. Of course, I will be more generous for perfect heartstones.