A strange luminescent bubble began appearing in Serenwilde, New Celest
and Magnagora. Within the bubble was a hazy image of Trader Bob's head,
who was trying to speak to any who would listen. Unfortunately, he
couldn't hear anyone through this odd bubble and many of the words he
was speaking was garbled and indecipherable. Eventually, however, he
managed to gather a group of the people of the Basin, representing each
of the three powers of Serenwilde, New Celest and Magnagora. At that
point, Trader Bob's mysterious "associates" sent a cube of mysterious
energy that had slots in which to place gems.

Though some slightly mistrusted Trader Bob's scheme with his
"associates", nonetheless, eventually people began depositing gems into
the cube, which was allocating specific gems for the Aether Project,
Project Serenwilde, Project Magnagora and Project New Celest. No one
quite knew what these projects were, but either a leap of faith or
curiosity or a trust in Trader Bob, kept them depositing gems.
Serenwilde was the first to deposit 1000 gems, followed by Magnagora.
Duplicate cubes appeared in Serenwilde and Magnagora. When 1000 gems
were deposited on behalf of the Aether Project, a new location opened
up, called the Aetherplex, which was the culmination of Trader Bob's
plans.

It was found out that the Aetherplex was a portal room allowing the
creation of aether manses in dimensional pockets within the Aetherways
themselves. Bob immediately set up shop selling the arcane items used to
create aether manses, as well as a shop to sell architectural artifacts.

Portal chambers immediately opened up in Serenwilde and Magnagora.
Later, New Celest finally deposited 1000 gems which opened up their own
portal chamber. The first person to delve into this new bit of planar
engineering was Ialie Starfall who constructed the aether manse known as
Starhaven.

Penned by my hand on the 15th of Vestian, in the year 108 CE.