Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Benalor/The World Engine (section)

=The Wandering Peaks=
Twenty years had passed since a disgraced Nytherio Siev arrived at the Grand Mountain Bjalfi. Investigators had found his resignation letter after his former teacher Elzenar Morad alerted them of the presumed break-in. They spent more time looking for him, considering the letter to be a ruse at first, an amateur ploy to misdirect investigators from discovering a far more gruesome fate for the budding Shaper. But even the tenacious investigators had to call off the search, closing the case of Siev and declaring him for all intents and purposes, dead. By this time, the aging Morad had passed away, his post of Senior Shaper being taken over by one of Siev's former peers, '''Sorenev Rickol'''. The College of Shapers had long since gotten over the shock of Siev's own presumed passing, some of them actually holding him in high regard at the time.

On the first morning of apprentice classes, Rickol had entered the same auditorium in which his Morad had delivered his developments on the Work Engines, to deliver the opening address to a crowd of eager, bright-eyed Shapers-to-be. A light rumbling had been heard since the previous night, most people dismissing them as the region is known to have the occasional earthquake, especially in the northern and eastern portions of the mountains. Rickol opened up his folio, pulling out the prepared address and opening his mouth to speak. Nothing came out of his lips before he was interrupted by a colleague, whispering something into his ear. He instructed the new students to proceed to the subterranae of the Tower with their instructors until further notice. As Rickol went to his chambers with his colleagues to discuss the goings-on, the rumbling grew stronger in the east, in the direction of Bjalfi. There, a battle for the safety of Benalor was brewing.

The Benaloran military had just authorized an assault on what seemed to be a moving mountain. It was as if the Grand Mountain had sprouted legs and crawled forth from the deep chasm its awakening had left, looking like a colossal insect of some sort with a snowy mountain perched upon its back. The military's '''Land Recon Brigade''' was the first to encounter it, unable to get too close to it due to the seismic activity each step caused. Next came the '''Aerial Recon Brigade''' to inspect the phenomenon from the sky, which managed to get a visual on a man riding atop the mountain. A man who would be later identified as the late Nytherio Siev.