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There is a great deal to discuss. Wrathion has provided much of the news that I have learned, but there are two further pieces of information that I feel is relevant. The last sacrifice to Sanwon was the child of Hyang-Won and Anui. She seems to have been from Waicai and while she moved past her beliefs, it never fully disappeared.

When the volcano started to heat again and it was time for someone to go, she gave her child. He was the last sacrifice. She waited until Hyang-Won was at hunt. When he returned and found his son gone, he was frantic and angry. He disappeared into the woods where a man that Hyang-Tai calls 'the Traveler' followed to calm him. It's not known what was spoken of, but apparently when Hyang-Won returned, he was changed, as were his beasts. They became as they are now. Not creatures of the woods.

Anui was gone and the villages were quiet. I think it may be possible that whatever curses this place is related to that and perhaps to the traveler. He is the reason for the House of Ravens, those that go in but never come out.

It might be possible to find a way to undo this curse, as we have had to undo the curses of ancestors here, but I am not certain how.

I do ask that someone accompany me to the House of Ravens, but only those that may wish to know more. I made a promise that I must fulfill and it may offer more answers.

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That reads to me as if the White Wanderer is the person she spoke of. That he brought the cure and perhaps made a deal with the Beastmaster, which resulted in his change. Maybe the cure and the alternative to the sacrifice he lost his son to were in exchange for something, something that changed the Beastmaster. Hyang-Tai previously specifically said the cure they were offered had 'depowered' after the heating caused by the volcano, so perhaps she meant they were unrelated to the serpent woman searching for her child?

You state exactly what I believe as well. I must confess, I feel a great deal of sympathy for Hyang-Won. I wish to help him somehow. What has happened to him, it was born out of grief and rage. Another took advantage of that.

Now that magic has corrupted him, his actions are beyond his former self.

Given that the cure he offered turns to dark water when heated, and dark water makes a mirror in the volcano, if a deal was made with the White Wanderer for both it would make sense he put the dark water there as some sort of alternative way to placate the volcano in place of Waicai's House of Ravens. The same thing serving two functions: crop renewal and holding back the volcano. It seems as if for the villages it had mostly worked apart from when the heat was too much, however the Beastmaster does appear to have paid a price if his change was a result -- and now obviously the result wears thin. It has only lasted a few years, it wasn't permanent.

I know that we are looking for a means to placate the volcano and to mitigate this magic. I wonder though, could we help the Beastmaster? Turn him back to the man he was?

If this entire place is destroyed by a volcano I doubt placation would do him any good.

The obvious solution would be to help him search for his son, however if his son is dead no doubt he'll be even more upset upon finding out. We cannot know either way until the house opens.

Undoing what was done to him, however, requires understanding what was done. We may need the White Wanderer for that. His shrines did help resist the Beastmaster's power. Perhaps there's a root there to helping restrain him, at the very least, if not undo what was done. Equally, water from Ke-Waiar helps when drunk. The signature felt the same to me, touched by the White Wanderer. Drinking some might help him, or it might undo him entirely -- all I know is it wards his gifts in others.

These suggestions are good ones and I think we should try them. I wish to speak to him though, the Beastmaster. Somehow, it might be possible to reach the man he was. Or at least try.

I understand his suffering. My child, my son...he was killed by a witch, sacrificed in blood magic.

Ke-Waicai is a cult, plain and simple, of human sacrifice. As much as I have sympathy for people knowing no better and making mistakes, I have a strong dislike of cults.

As do I. I believe it must be stopped, but I do believe there is a chance to help fix a matter that is plaguing this land. Healing a heart that has been rageful for so long.

It may be beyond our power to undo what has been done, but if he could at least be spoken to enough to bring him calm there is always a chance we may find a way to help him later.

However, you must also prepare yourself for the possibility he will not be reasoned with.

I may be over optimistic about changing him, but there must be some means to reach him? It would be better to try than to simply assume he should die.

I am aware, but I insist we try first until we have no choice.

I will not begrudge you the chance you try. I hope you are not disappointed.

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