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In the stories, the [[Heroes of the Lance]] flee to [[Thorbardin]], the kingdom of the [[Canon:Mountain dwarf (Dragonlance)|mountain dwarves]], where the ''Dragonlance'' is being forged; the heroes are eventually able to use the ''Dragonlance'' to prevail over the villains.<ref name="LZW">{{cite book |editor1-first= Detlef |editor1-last= Wienecke-Janz | year = 2002 | title = Lexikon der Zauberwelten - Gandalf & Co. | publisher = Wissen Media Verlag | isbn = 3-577-13505-0 |page=62}}</ref>

The Graygem of Gargath is an artifact that contains the essence of the being [[Chaos]]. [[Reorx]] created it to contain actually a small part of the god Chaos but accidentally captured him in the gem, according to the campaign setting. The artifact is the Graygem, which he puts into the moon Lunitari. The common story is that the [[gnome]]s took the Graygem to power a Great Machine they had made from [[Reorx]]'s designs. The gem escapes them, and the Chaos within changes the world and the things in it ([[Pegasus|pegasi]], [[minotaur]]s, etc.). The gnomes chase the Graygem east from [[Taladas]], until they reach [[Ansalon]]. Gargath, a powerful ancient wizard, traps the Graygem between two godstones and sets it in a tower. Two groups of gnomes, one seeking the Graygem for wealth and the other wanting to study it, attempt to capture the Graygem from Gargath, and it transforms them into [[Canon:Dwarf (Dragonlance)|dwarves]] and [[kender]].

However, in the ''[[Dwarven Kingdoms of Krynn]]'' module ''Songs of the Loremaster'', which relates in extreme detail the true history of the dwarven peoples of Krynn, the tale is much different. It is told that the [[Smiths]], the precursor peoples of the dwarves, once dwealt on the continent of Taladas, and were natural masters of elemental magic. Which they used to build and craft amazing things. They constructed a ladder from [[Krynn]] to the red moon [[Lunitari (moon)|Lunitari]], where the Greygem was, and attempted to retrieve it. As the one carrying it descended to the ground, the gem flared its power, and flew off (wreaking the chaos as noted in the other tale). The circle of smiths at the base of the ladder were turned into the [[Scions]] (of which one is in fact narrating this story to the reader), golden skinned beings with great magical abilities, and the Smiths lost their elemental abilities and became known as dwarves. The dwarves were driven from Taladas and chased the greygem to Ansalon. Eventually the tale tells of the battle of Gargath, where armies vied for the Gem. An army of Dwarves was transformed by the gem's power into gnomes, and an army of [[Canon:Elf (Dragonlance)|elves]] was transformed into the first kender.<ref>{{Cite_Pub|Dwarven Kingdoms of Krynn}}</ref>