Soon.
Aiven and the others understood from Nekado's slightly incoherent words what this "Childless Evil Spirit" really was.
To the pioneers, this land seemed vast and bountiful, practically a treasure trove.
But this didn't mean that all life here lived in paradise; the natives also experienced natural disasters, wars, and famines.
During the years of famine, the Atrean tradition was not to let their children starve with them but to drown them in the rivers.
Because legends said that children who drowned in the rivers would finally become river spirits—the beavers!
By gnawing on water plants, roots, and bark, their children could live on in another form.
This legend had been passed down for a long time, and many desperate mothers in that primitive world would do the same in helplessness.
However, as time went on.
