What with Atropos' shears having been 'misplaced', the departed souls of
the slain were left roaming the Basin circa Roarkian, 396. The mortals
who went about gathering these ghosts on Atropos' behalf were sometimes
regaled with tales from one of the past lives of the ghosts, though
words of warning were to be heard from some as well. These words
cautioned about a weapon of the Old Empire, known as 'eaf', that had
been hidden away but was in danger of resurfacing.

And resurface it did, nearly a month after the ghosts started their
cautioning. In the middle of Estar, 397, the ghosts joined together,
using their voices in unison to warn those still living. Shortly after,
a green cloud was seen to escape from the Razine Mountains, dissipating
briefly after erupting. Those who went to investigate discovered a
portion of the wall in one of the tunnels had been broken, revealing a
crumbling pillar. Pushing his way past the debris about the pillar,
Synkarin became the first mortal to have entered the laboratory since
the days of the Nature Wars.

As others came to see this forewarned place as well, they began
exploring the five-storied laboratory. And a laboratory it was, for
three of the floors seemed devoted to studying various stages of the
creature the ghosts called 'eaf', referred to properly as 'eaf'Chanoru'
according to reports found about the lab. These three floors also housed
failed results of the experiment, eaf'Chanoru who were driven insane by
the deformed shapes the experiments had caused. But then Synkarin and a
group of city-mates arrived at the bottom floor, and discovered the
heart of the laboratory, a device called the 'Fae-Fleshpot'. The
fragmented reports implied this device to be the most crucial to the
experiments, without it the eaf'Chanoru could not be created nor evolved
into the weapon the scientists were seeking.

The fragmented reports were not the only source of information here, as
Trueflight Iytha came to find, for within the lab was a giant vat filled
with peculiar fluid. Within the vat, Iytha found pulsing brains which
conversed telepathically with her, shedding further light on the
laboratory and its purpose. Between the brains and the fragments of
reports, the experiment, and its threat to the forests, became evident,
for the eaf'Chanoru could not be made without the flesh of dead fae.

When a few of the communes heard of this, they went quickly to the lab
to see what this threat was. Meeting with some of those already inside,
a brief discussion was had involving politics and preventing the
experiment from being performed again. This may have been futile at
first, as the workings of the Fae-Fleshpot were not fully understood by
interested parties, but those against the experiment were either unaware
or wished to be thorough. Splitting up, they raced through the lab's
floors, intent on killing, breaking, or stealing anything that might
look crucial to the experiment. After some time of this, when it seemed
the experiment could not be performed for the time being, many departed
to their cities and communes, telling those their what had been seen in
the horrific laboratory.

But a small party had remained behind. Intent on seeing the result of
the experiments, they gathered the fragmented parts, talked to the
pulsing brains, and recalled what they had heard others discuss.
Comparing all the information together, and with a little
trial-and-error, they were able to figure out what was needed to create
an eaf'Chanoru from the Fae-Fleshpot. Soon after their hard, dangerous,
and sneaky work, not one but two eaf'chanorus were brought into
existence, loyal to those who had made them. Not satisfied in stopped
with this small victory, the party set out to complete the steps
detailed in the reports to evolve the eaf'Chanoru, but into what they
did not know.

After a few days of work, they were able to successfully evolve one of
the eaf'Chanoru into a small piglet-like creature called an eaf'Eramich.
Rushing to the stables to place the beast there, the joyous owner found
the stable-hands were at first unwilling to house such a creature, but a
small bribe in the form of wine soon resolved any issues, and there the
beast was placed.

But what will this small piglet grow to be? What of the forests, who
mutually see this place as a threat? And what of the single Glomdoring
who snuck in and created his own eaf'Chanoru, taking the creature not to
be completed, but to the Dark Forest to be studied?

Penned by My hand on the 5th of Kiani, in the year 397 CE.