"When Urtho and Ma'ar's towers blew up, they punched terrible holes in the local magic. It threw everything out of whack; every leyline got scrambled, and spells would only work one time in ten, if that," Skan affects a shrug with both wings.

"It's created all kinds of chaos, and we've lost contact with any Gryphons who weren't immediately with us, at the time. What's more is, we're separated by a lot farther than we originally intended."