[Everfrost] To Zvier Highlands

{ChangeScene(SnowyMain_259)}Seek out Ganzorig in the highlands. And if you need my aid, send word by his hawk. {ChangeScene(SnowyMain_258)}You aided us at Bronte's Bolt, and now we are in your debt once more. {ChangeScene(SnowyMain_259)}No, no. We are the ones indebted to the two of you. For the Zvier Highlands are the first home of the Abets. Even though one of the totems has been destroyed and all have been evacuated due to Dreadwinter Trees taking root all over... {ChangeScene(SnowyMain_258)}Dreadwinter Trees have been sighted there as well..? You should go on ahead. I need to have a word with Tabudai.

Ah! I'll go speak with my Fleeing Fox Squad and let them know that even the Okjinsini are crying foul about this!

The Zvier Highlands were abandoned by Humans early on, so it was quite easy for us to settle down here. Gaining the wisdom of Sethra, the Witch of Rifts, did not come without its price... "Let my veins, spread like spiderwebs beneath the highlands, absorb the life force of the surface." Those Humans offered as living sacrifices to the witch didn't last for long, and upon the witch's demise, the settlement was quickly abandoned by the Humans. We made their former first settlement into one of our own and, up until quite recently... had maintained it as such. We did so for the sake of the Hawk and Leopard Abets who had gone beyond the Mountain of Eternal Winter long ago during our time in the highlands. But this too was their home. As we tended the land, we often left out some meat they enjoyed. Though they would never again return, wild animals would frequent our settlement and eat to their heart's content. Seeing this gave us some small relief, knowing the Hawk and Leopard Abets would have some sanctuary to return to. At least, before the Leopard totem was destroyed... Sethra's Vase would always give off such a pleasant fragrance. It absorbed the life energy of the creatures that gathered around each totem. A sign that the health of the highlands was in a good state.