IMPORTANT UPDATE
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ARRZANETH OSSUARY, UL'DAH - Many of the denizens of the Shroud remember the great pillar of fire that lit up the night sky moons ago. First-hand accounts by the tactician Tmesis Oan placed the cause to be that of a single individual - one Restless Wind. However, recent information seems to overturn the man's wild claims.
"Everyone has heard tales of the sickening power of Black Magic," states Ajojo Mojojo, alchemist and thaumaturge at Arrzaneth Ossuary. "So it is only natural that a man so interested in ancient warfare as this Tmesis fellow would immediately claim the event as the use of 'forbidden magic.'"
"The actual cause is far less... fanciful," he continued, making a show of how much stock he put into the witness' supposed flight of fancy. He proceeded to explain that - while most ceruleum caches are kept in secured, well-fortified locations - the outpost nestled in the Twelveswood was rife with lax safety practices and in poor repair. Soil samples gathered by the Wood Wailers and brought to the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah revealed what Ajojo called a "cornucopia of volatile compounds" that leads him to believe that several other dangerous materials were also kept in the ceruleum depot.
"In such a hazardous location, the smallest spark would've caused it to go up in a pillar of flame," Ajojo explained. "Or, in this case, a well-placed blast of normal, Thaumaturgic fire or lightning-aspected aether."
"This Restless Wind woman may be a skilled Thaumaturge, but she is just that. There was nothing 'forbidden' at play beyond forbidden storage procedures." He would go on to say that to charge the woman for magicks she did not possess would be akin to a blind witch hunt, and bade the Twin Adders withdraw their bounty on her head. Response is pending from Gridania, but sources state that they will be issuing a retraction on the reward and the bounty by the end of the sun.
When asked about the matter, Tmesis admitted that he may have been hasty in claiming what had occurred as Black Magic. "It would explain why they reacted as they did when I confronted them," he explained. "Afraid of being marked as users of Black Magic, they simply sought to escape." He then extended his deepest condolences to both the misconstrued thaumaturge and her lalafellan companion for aiding in the spreading of misinformation.
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ARRZANETH OSSUARY, UL'DAH - Many of the denizens of the Shroud remember the great pillar of fire that lit up the night sky moons ago. First-hand accounts by the tactician Tmesis Oan placed the cause to be that of a single individual - one Restless Wind. However, recent information seems to overturn the man's wild claims.
"Everyone has heard tales of the sickening power of Black Magic," states Ajojo Mojojo, alchemist and thaumaturge at Arrzaneth Ossuary. "So it is only natural that a man so interested in ancient warfare as this Tmesis fellow would immediately claim the event as the use of 'forbidden magic.'"
"The actual cause is far less... fanciful," he continued, making a show of how much stock he put into the witness' supposed flight of fancy. He proceeded to explain that - while most ceruleum caches are kept in secured, well-fortified locations - the outpost nestled in the Twelveswood was rife with lax safety practices and in poor repair. Soil samples gathered by the Wood Wailers and brought to the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah revealed what Ajojo called a "cornucopia of volatile compounds" that leads him to believe that several other dangerous materials were also kept in the ceruleum depot.
"In such a hazardous location, the smallest spark would've caused it to go up in a pillar of flame," Ajojo explained. "Or, in this case, a well-placed blast of normal, Thaumaturgic fire or lightning-aspected aether."
"This Restless Wind woman may be a skilled Thaumaturge, but she is just that. There was nothing 'forbidden' at play beyond forbidden storage procedures." He would go on to say that to charge the woman for magicks she did not possess would be akin to a blind witch hunt, and bade the Twin Adders withdraw their bounty on her head. Response is pending from Gridania, but sources state that they will be issuing a retraction on the reward and the bounty by the end of the sun.
When asked about the matter, Tmesis admitted that he may have been hasty in claiming what had occurred as Black Magic. "It would explain why they reacted as they did when I confronted them," he explained. "Afraid of being marked as users of Black Magic, they simply sought to escape." He then extended his deepest condolences to both the misconstrued thaumaturge and her lalafellan companion for aiding in the spreading of misinformation.
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