solely coming from the Barrens. They’d begun to take recruits,
teaching those who never bonded a gryphon to channel what was not
theirs to take, to upset the balance of magic by stealing it from the very
source.
The problem with mankind is we too often find our souls to be a fair
price for power.
—CAPTAIN LERA DORRELL’S GUIDE TO VANQUISHING THE VENIN
PROPERTY OF CLIFFSBANE ACADEMY