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K’tala travelled throughout Thras to unravel this mystery, consulting with the largest of the Sloads and showing the proper forms of mocking deference expected of him. To the furthest reaches of Thras banshees were sent to howl the question to all who would hear it, aquatic screeches that tore through the water with such force that they caused tidal waves to fall on Hammerfell, like - if one might concede to this one a small joke - like a hammer. On and around the shores, rusalka, valuable because of the difficulty used to acquire them, usually by manipulating drowned husband sailors whose visitations were used to lure them to a watery suicide, were sent to query the aged and reclusive ones, big as whales, blubber swaying gently with the water, who plotted and schemed such grand schemes they became lost in the convolutions of their own scenarios, and were kept alive only by the ministrations of their decaying attendants and, occasionally, nourished by the reckless larvae who accidentally swam inside their mouths in search of crumbs. All gave the same answer, counselling caution and reconsideration while evasively referring to the north.