Cause for Celebration

Master Quatermain: The latest field report came with a curious but fortuitous discovery that you should find most promising. Earlier reports of abnormalities in the behaviours and patterns of the Realms’ wisps had me send a most eager group of Realmwalkers to look into the matter. Through observation, they noted how certain wisps have taken to gathering in strange clusters, as if moths to a flame or bees to their queen. Upon dispersal, the wisps uncovered a before unseen type of Essence, which the team managed to retrieve and return to me. Through extraction and careful study, I’ve determined the source of this new Essence to be human Hope. Though, how Hope came to be the origin of this Essence, I cannot yet say. Up until now, Essence has been quintessentially Fae, but I posit that humanity’s increased presence in the Realms post-Calamity may have something to do with it. I shall continue my research, but I do not believe the implications of this discovery should go without celebration. There <i>is</> Hope in these Realms, Quatermain! What better way to bolster our fortitude than to celebrate these Sparks of Hope? Agatha Harris