Location:Seven Peaks — Library, Thunder Peak
Date/Time:TC1853.12.24 — Morning to Evening
The pre-waning beast treaties were meticulous.
Shen Wuyan turned another page of the hand-copied manuscript — one of seventeen she'd brought from the splinter group's archives, preserved across eight centuries of exile in leather cases sealed with formation wards that had outlasted the dynasties that created them. The text described standing agreements between human settlements and greater beast territories, including boundary markers, tribute protocols, and the specific diplomatic frameworks that had kept the peace between species capable of leveling cities.
She needed this knowledge now. Whatever had been holding position twelve kilometers east for two weeks would eventually approach. When it did, the sect needed someone who understood how the old world had talked to beings of that magnitude.
