"Those rune words aren't from the same time. They are from very spread out. Maybe hundreds of years separated, right?' Alice seemed to be catching on that this was when some members of the origin race might have been much younger. When they were learning to balance and grow the whole that they had barely begun to explore themselves.
"They certainly are. I think that the origin race is powerful and some are very old, but they are not all knowing and others are not as experienced. There just might not be many of them that we can see since they go out in to the chaotic mana."
Knowing that there were potentially few meant that either more were out in the chaotic mana exploring and finding new elemental planes or that they were very few in number. The idea that the race he became part of was nearly extinct didn't sit well with Walker. He didn't want any race to suffer the worries that came with that. Let alone one that he was now tied to so deeply.
