Mulciber was the builder . Spare and stony, the plates of its jade armor were weathered and pockmarked by the hard rains of radiation and the fires of the burning forests. No one was sure if there was even anything inside the armor anymore. Some people claimed you could see daylight shining right through it from certain angles . It spoke softly, as if it was whispering right into your ear. It had two thumbs on each hand. Its experiences with engineering had lent it a certain skepticism about the nature of the universe that led it to believe this would all end badly.