He pauses. "I was there, but missed much of the intervening time." He chooses not to elaborate on that for the time being. "That said, yes, it was too good to last. The power source that they found... When the research team attempted to tap into it, there was a backlash that destroyed the facility and many in it who did not have a chance to escape. It was looked at as a tragedy as is, but no one knew for quite some time just how much of one it was. The source of power they had found was a malevolent entity that came to be known by most as the Dark One, who had been imprisoned outside of the pattern for long enough that even legend had long forgotten of him. And his prison had been bored into. Even the smallest opening let his influence begin to touch the world."
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Date: 2023-11-28 08:40 pm (UTC)