[ He sits silently for a time. Then, reluctantly, he explains. ]

We instigated calamities of matching elements on both the Source and the shard simultaneously. A frightfully difficult endeavour to pull off when time was inconstant between each one. We accidentally lost the Thirteenth to Darkness before we realised our error. The surge of aether would forcibly break down the barrier betwixt Source and shard and collapse them together again. We succeeded at this seven times... But as we kept trying to instigate the eighth, Rhea'li would foil our plans. We had laid several of them and each one fell short.