Land of Storms

==== Passage about the Land of Storms from Our Ashen Lands by Dovas Thernusiel, Half-Drow Scholar that resides in the island of Cerato. ====
"At every hour of every day a raging self-contained lighting storm rages on this land. The winds? Extremely strong. The sea? Impassable. The waves would break even the flagship of the Changrila treasure fleet, and not even the skilled Asvaran mariners could resist throwing up in this climate.
The land is flanked by steep rocky hillsides that no living being could hope to climb. The only way to traverse the land is on foot from the drow cities, as animals instinctively know not to approach. The region progressively gets higher and higher, with the southernmost tip rising like a mountain.
But you know what's the strangest thing about this land? Nobody who goes there ever returns -but that's not the truly strange thing- what has even the greatest wizards, such as grand arch-librarian Jimbo the Bearded, completely puzzled, is that the people who venture into the land are forgotten by those who knew them. Family members, friends, lovers, children and fathers, all suddenly forget that there was someone in their lives who suddenly isn't there anymore.
The only way we even know that people have gone into the land of storms is that the Wizards and Arangeans have organized 3 expeditions, all of which ended in failure. You can imagine the horror of the great northern wisemen when their infallible records clearly state that several men went to this land, and yet nobody seems to have any memory of any of them. The last expedition went there 12 years ago, and the Council of Wizards has put a moratorium on any further attempts to explore the land.
But you know, there might be another detail which is even more grim. Now I cannot vouch for the veracity of this, as it's only hearsay that one can't speak too loudly, for fear of who may be listening. There are rumours of that there was another, fourth expedition, a joint adventure between the college of Arangea and the Citadel of Terpsythea. The members of which supposedly took with them signal lifegems, great pieces of alchemical artifice which work in the following manner: a person takes one with them and keeps them in their person, while a pair of the lifegem is kept at home. No matter how far the adventurer goes, the lifegem that remains home will accurately display whether they are alive or not. The rumour goes that one cleaner boy from the Citadel found the box of lifegems of the Terpsythean members of the expedition, which had also been forgotten. And would you know, all the lifegems showed that the expeditioners were still alive?
If the rumour is even remotely true, I'd understand why the Wizards are keeping this secret."
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