THE CORONAL VALLEY
I am the first to report and debunk the running theory that the Coronal Valley is infertile and cannot support life. In fact, there is strong evidence to support the existence of living fauna and flora within the once thought desolate wasteland, ravaged by war. From what I have observed, the Coronal Valley has made an almost complete and miraculous recovery of its ecological wildlife, completely transforming from a dead zone into a sustainable ecosystem. Forests and grasslands have grown over the battlefields of the Wake of Steel, and civilization still is flourishing within the valley's heart. I, as a scholar, cannot believe it myself.
For the past four days, my logging of the surrounding area has yielded promising results. This area shows all the main components of a thriving environment—biodiversity, abundance of nutrients, and stability. But, there are some major deviations from what I would consider "normal" in this valley. The trees and various other plants have grown to produce a magenta-purplish color of leaves. The same goes for the grass, adopting bluish tones as well. The streams glow pink and silver at night, yet the water seems almost fine. The livestock fed off this area seems extraordinarily healthy and very tame compared to the skittish herds in Edelith, as if their primal instincts are being subdued. The demon populace is what really concerns me. While a rarity of "beast-like" demons trickled about the Arvegum Plains, they seemed to be in abundance in the Coronal Valley. My personal hypothesis? They are slowly migrating from the Coronal Valley outwards through the Astoran Mountains. If so, the outcomes of this on the Edelithian ecosystem could be concerning...
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The question that rings in the air is: how? Miraculous regrowth of a desolate area is rare, but not uncommon. There are plenty of sources of divine intervention spurring revitalization—a prime example being the Edelith Pods of the southern wastes. However, regrowth on such a large scale is unprecedented. For such an abnormal event to even succeed, an amount of energy released by something such as an "Edelith Pod" would be massive. So massive in fact, that the regrowth initiative couldn't have gone unnoticed by even the people of New Arvegum across the mountain range. There are some theories I am cooking up, but nothing is set in stone. It seems unordinary but nevertheless is true. The Coronal Valley lives again.
Author's Note: It feels wrong. Off. Strange. I don't like it. There's something afoot here. Forests don't magically appear out of nowhere. Villages don't suddenly arise from ash. Horsemen don't just randomly appear. What is going on? I thought I could trust Gorta, our guide through the forest. I don't anymore. She's behind this.
