Kassieti

The Great Library is vast and nobody is entirely sure where the bird came
from or how it got there. Some believe it a piece of Nercuros, broken free
from the moon during one of the many meteoroid impacts upon its surface.
This piece eventually fell to a remote part of Aabahran and was eventually
covered by time deep below the surface. Even buried as it was, the call
from this piece of the Prime of Balance was felt and to it came many from
both aspects of life. People settled nearby, drawn to the spot where the
impact happened. They built a town above just as another creature burrowed
a cavern below. To this end, the balance was preserved until those living
in Anduin left it abandoned. Eventually, another city was built on top of
the first. Life and order prospered on the surface once more while Shudde
M'ell lived on below until Caraduin too, was set to ruin.

It was only the contingent of archaeologists sent from Khorandain that dove

into the earth there, who found that which was so long ago buried. In their

excitement in discovering what they thought to be a new type of stone, they

salvaged what they could and sent it back to Khorandain as quickly as

possible. There, it was categorized, mislabeled and set upon a stonemason's

bench to build to be made into a statue for the library that was being built

to the east. So he set upon the rock, chiseling pieces off until it took

the shape of a bird he saw long ago on an island in the Dead Sea.

At first, it sat in the chambers of the Historians. After a time it was

passed down to the Academicians. Eventually it made its way in the back

corners of the library to gather dust. It sat there feeling the shifts of

balance, back and forth until the balance tipped often enough. The Long

Night turned to be the final straw and the statue moved ...