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Summer had thinned the snowpack twice over when she felt the joint at her elbow first begin to stiffen. What replaced it was a hunger to feel something - anything - new. Harmke's death had brought the Devil of Caroc little satisfaction. In them, she came to find her place in the village and the familiar contours of a world that had changed in her absence. She also learned that Kallu had perished of winter fever a few years before, and her middle child, Najuo, had died in a raid.īut she found her daughter Yakona a hunter and mother of three and her son Malaak a builder of mighty walls. Mussuk greeted her with cautious warmth, and Sagani found that their ways had become strange to her. Sagani returned to a village that had forgotten her face but remembered her story. There, she met a young farmer and told her of her past as an elder of Mussuk. When it did, she followed its signal to a quiet hamlet on the outskirts of Aedyr. Twenty years passed before the adra figurine finally glowed again. She saw the great coastal cities of Rauatai and the ruins of Old Vailia, absorbing the details of these strange and distant lands. Her search took her beyond the Dyrwood and as far as the Living Lands.

#PILLARS OF ETERNITY DURANCE TRIAL#

The adra figurine had gone dark by the time they emerged from Sun in Shadow, and it was another month before Sagani finally accepted that Persoq's trial had gone cold again. You and Sagani never found Persoq together. In his personal life, he came to enjoy the reputation of an affable eccentric, willing to share grand and impossible secrets along with a drink and a song. Kana swiftly became an influential figure in the move toward a more collaborative approach to expansion on the northern continent. Kana's inability to prove his theory of Engwithan influence diminished his academic standing, but his passion drew much interest from those less concerned with degrees. Kana urged his people to continue to pursue knowledge abroad, so that the lessons found there might benefit Takowa. Both inspiration and cautionary tales, he said, could be found in the world beyond Rauatai's borders. He spoke too of the destruction of the tablet by the Leaden Key, and the group's efforts to erase the Engwithan legacy from the world.

Kana spoke of the Engwithan people, describing both their vile experiments and their inspiring accomplishments. There he reported on his findings to the lore college.

With both their aims fulfilled, Kana Rua bid the Watcher farewell, and sailed back to his beloved Rauatai. The rage against animancers was quickly forgotten, and those who had survived were permitted to return to Brackenbury Sanitarium and rebuild it so they might resume their studies. When the Legacy had lifted, people came to see it not as a sign that the riots had been according to the gods' wishes, as Thaos had hoped, but as a confirmation that animancy had never been the source of the problem in the first place.ĭyrwoodans instead convinced themselves that the riots had somehow purged Defiance Bay of Leaden Key spies, and that the end of Waidwen's Legacy was their well-deserved reward. The rumor spread quickly, and soon the popular belief was that the assassin had been a Leaden Key spy. The duc's assassination at the apparent hands of an animancer had caused catastrophic rioting in the streets of Defiance Bay, but those who had escaped the melee in the palace hearings remembered the testimonies of the strange guest who had shown up that day and absolved animancy, implicating the Leaden Key instead. Such constructs terrorised their surroundings, killing indiscriminately and often in great numbers before being subdued. In the cities, meanwhile, dabblers in animancy who had placed the souls into golems and other moving vessels soon found that their creations had risen up against them. A dry spell throughout Dyrwood led to a rash of forest fires on a scale not seen since the War of Black Trees, and many settlements paid the price for their proximity to the wilderness. Those that weren't destroyed by the beasts of Galawain often found themselves at the mercy of the fires of Magran. Many such villages were all but destroyed by the time troops could be dispatched from local garrisons. In the months that followed, the frontier settlements of Dyrwood were inexplicably attacked by packs of beasts and monsters, suddenly organised and unafraid to approach kith on their own land. Along with Magran and Abydon, Galawain embarked upon a more direct approach to claiming his quarry. To wrong Galawain, then, is truly to wake the beast, and the Father of Monsters took great umbrage at your broken promise to him. It is said that Galawain is the enforcer of the gods, and is known to hunt down those who wrong them.

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