The Golden Enchanting Table is a titan-wrought artifact, constructed from knowledge and materials no mortal tradition could provide. It was later acquired by the golden beard dwarf smith also famous for erecting the legendary 9-ringed city, who restored and housed it — but the table itself is older than his line, and the knowledge that made it is not his.
The table sits at the center of a chamber of ceaselessly turning gold gears. The gold is structure: frame, teeth, housing. The charge lives elsewhere. Every gear-tooth is inscribed along both faces with Deoric runes written in titan blood — the only medium that holds Deoric charge without decay. As the gears rotate, rune-faces from different gears come into contact, and the combined inscription briefly forms a complete Deoric working, drawing its power from the soul-reservoir sealed in the table's core. That core holds a legendary soul, bound there as the life-price Deoric demands — the language always costs life, and here that cost was paid once, in full, at the moment of the table's forging.
When a completed working forms at the gear-junctions, it presents itself to whoever stands within the chamber. The recipient may then direct that working without having to pay the life-price themselves; it has already been spent. The gears are set to migrate over the course of a decade so that every tooth meets every other — cycling through as many Deoric combinations as the inscription set allows.
The lesser souls bound into the gear-mechanism keep the gears turning, paying in fragments of life-force the small ongoing cost of motion. They do not supply the power for the workings themselves; that is the core's burden.
Renowned enchanters seek the table not because it is free magic — no Deoric is free — but because it makes accessible workings whose life-price has already been settled, and because studying the titan-inscribed rune-faces teaches the shape of Deoric combinations that the mortal reconstruction tradition has only partially recovered.