A couple of days ago we found a little thing. A magic glass lamp that lights up at the owner's will. Sheer nonsense, you say? Of course, it's a completely ordinary thing, many people have it, but! Do you know the history of the origin of such lamps?
As for visual magic (i.e., having visible manifestations) and various enchanted objects, the dwarves of Harassukhum have been competing with the elves of the Glinnar Dimonarchy in this area for an unknown number of thousands of years. And both have their own opinions about who first invented such lamps.
The Alvas claim that they were the first. A certain maiden, whose name has not been preserved in history, invented them and called them easy-going - "glass light". The Dvergi borrowed the technology from her, and then started doing it themselves.
The Dverg do not deny that they borrowed - but they borrowed, as they say, the idea, not the technology. The lamps that the nameless maiden made were of disgusting quality, but the Dverg learned to make them so good that the technology has now been borrowed by the Elves.
But what really? But in fact, they were invented by people! Yes, those same homo sapiens. For some reason, neither the dwarves nor the elves mention this, but we have some information from the hvenvants, and most importantly, from the dragars. The latter mention the name in this regard Rxuḑğâsîrxâg — "Fastfoot"; it's clearly a translation, but what was this guy's real name — alas, we don't know. And the records tell of how this same Fastfoot was once able to "contain fire in glass," and everyone liked the idea so much that they themselves began to stamp out lanterns in unlimited quantities. Moreover, it is reliably known that these records are much older than both legends, so!