Field Notes — Day 19 Believe it or not, water used to be plentiful in the Kindlewastes. Yet when I asked some locals what befell these lands, I could not get a consistent answer from any of them. Everything from a mysterious sun god sucking the water into the heavens to the ground cracking open and the entire lake basin draining like a fishbowl... none of it made sense. The fact is — one day, Eldermere Dam stopped giving water, even when the spillways were completely opened. I have heard whispers from far corners of Embervale of a blight emerging from beneath the ground, a world killer. Could these two environmental calamities be related? —Loraine Crim