During the spring of the year 484, a healer named Jehanne journeyed to Enorian, seeking an audience with the Beacon. She wished to travel to Raim in order to build a hospice, seeking to mend some of the damage left by her great-grandfather, Jirken. With the assistance of Oonagh, the Ascendril Archmage, the mad scientist's notes were located, and the caravan left for the Vale. A tense negotiation with Midolo Raim, the leader of the survivors, ended with the grudging allowance for Jehanne to build her sanitorium, and some dire imprecations against the Beacon should things turn out for the worse.

A month and a half later, the people of the Beacon were invited to attend a pyre at the site of the new sanitorium, putting the dead to rest and perhaps mending some of the bridges burned between the Beacon and the Vale. While initially Midolo Raim was hostile, the people of the Beacon argued their case well - Shallam, dead for centuries, was not the same city as Enorian, and clinging to the crimes of the past would help nobody in the present.

The discussion was ended, however, when the pyre was lit, and the contagion of the Vale coalesced in the form of a hideous nightmare. The thing, composed of burning meat and wearing Jirken's face, descended hungrily on the people of Enorian, who fought valiantly to distract and slay the embodiment of Shallam's sins. With the creature dead, Midolo shaken from his blind hatred, and the Vale cleansed of some portion of the sickness infecting it, it would seem that the future of Raim is brighter than it has been for centuries.

Penned by my hand on Quensday, the 6th of Severin, in the year 485 MA.
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