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Georgie (because this is getting long)
But they were speaking of records. Ahem. Yes, yes, records of the most interesting expeditions and the like, let's see now...
The First (?) Expedition
A group of five, two Witches and three Monsters, set out to see what had become of a settlement closer to the heart of the forest of Geardagas. There'd been birds coming in at a steady pace about the rise of what they now know as the Cwyld today, though it'd been something natural for as long as could apparently have been remembered, considering the casualness of which it is mentioned. Eager to aid their brethren at the deep forest's foot, the group sought out the settlement and found it flattened.
There was evidence of something, or many somethings, having destroyed the houses and whatnot of the settlement, but there were no people about. Searching around perimeter of the settlement found traces of Arachne involvement, and so the group decided to move further into the heart, which was really their mistake. Within the forest nearby, which would've been the deepest expedition even now, they allegedly found the bodies of those missing, which were being consumed by the local Arachne, stained black and white by the Cwyld's effect. They weren't the only victims, the group'd written, because there'd been Dryads and insect-like beings (not Fae, Georgie says with a sniff, though honestly they more likely were and he's just real stuck on his theories) hanging in their webs as well, and it's with only one death of a Monster that they'd escaped back to what was left of the settlement, and then back to Aefenglom via the river.
The Surviving Bird
Something more "recent" comparatively, more likely within the last two hundred odd years, was one of if not the worst of the worst expeditions. Ah, he's more likely asking about the one with Moore's forefather, thinking about it, but this is waaaay more interesting to Georgie personally, since that girl's potential for anything outside a needle and thread is an absolute zero. Her grandfather wasn't much either, in his personal opinion, and that's why one of them has a healthy, surviving family with good renown and the other is Alissa Moore and that useless bunny of hers.
In any case.
The Harpy was more of a birdbrain than normal after that. Really scattered, he kept talking about black beasts and the like, he'd lost every feather to his name and resembled a disgusting, nightmareish creature, the pictures they'd painted of him are horrendous if Eren'd like to see them sometime. What they managed to get from him is that the creatures ripped everyone from limb to limb, and apparently drew their magic and life from them? Like some kind of dream eater (which he apparently believes in, despite not believe in True Fae?) and the like. Very short report, that one, and the location hasn't been found even in today's time.
Now, before Georgie continues on, he'd like to confirm the "worst" expedition Eren speaks of. The one involving Moore's ancestor?
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2. he’d like those pictures from the second record, please! and yes, the worst he assumes is that one with moore! if he needs what eren knows, he’ll tell him. by the way . . . do chimeras have that ability? sucking the magic and life out of others?
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Regardless. The account.
There's more or less a straight shot into the middle of the continent following a river that feeds into the sea, and so a large company comprised of trained Witches, medics, researchers, Monsters, and record-keepers followed it as far as they could, and set up camp in the thick of the woods there, around an hour's walk on foot or so it's written. There they wrote of the very things that Eren'd mentioned, the state of the flora surrounding the base, and kept a record of cures they tried whilst maintaining the camp to see which was most effective in "curing" the Cwyld, many techniques which are still used today by the Wilders.
Time, Georgie explains, is odder the more you traverse into the Wilde, be that the seasons are switched as is and so the hours feel off as well, and many of the things are guesstimates. The only way to track it in the Wilde proper was to count by the visible seasons, and to know if you went in at the beginning of spring elsewhere it would be the beginning of autumn, if you left in the dead of winter there you'd arrive home in the heat of summer. That sort of thing. Following this, he says that it was at some point that autumn there they felt confident enough to try to dig deeper into the Heart than ever before, having been stopped prior by unlucky happenstances such as minor infections, equipment faltering, so on and so forth.
On this expedition of ten were Thrush and Moore, the former being a medic in training and the latter an inspiring journalist of sorts. Record-keeper. Archivist. So on, so on. What Monsters they brought along for protection unfortunately either died or had to be put down due to the Cwyld infections they held, and there'd be little word of what happened to the more brave researchers and Witches as well -- though Georgie's of the mind that they'd been taken and consumed, and there's doubtlessly craters to prove that within the area known as Dewaint in the oldest of archives. T'was these two and three others than returned to camp, and those three were...
Well. They were put to rest almost immediately, despite Thrush and Moore's efforts to save them prior. It was just too dangerous to keep them around. Thrush held more of the infection than Moore did on her part, but it wasn't to a level that would be harmful to remove, and the true scarring to their person was mental. Reports mention that they wouldn't speak for days after unless to ask after the companions they'd left behind and the ones they'd brought back, and it'd only been once they arrived back in Aefenglom that the Dreamers of the time were able to calm their minds enough to ask, to probe their memories for truths.
However, due to the amount of mental trauma they'd faced, the memories weren't of much help. Darkness and blocks that, when removed even a smidge, sent the two screaming. What was retrieved from these attempts, paired with interrogation, was just as Eren said: A Cwyltid unlike any other, something that'd been a Monster and was one no more.
Something interesting between Alissa's account and this, however, is the lack of mentioned crystalization, as well as no mention of any drawings nor guesses as to what the Cywltid could've been.
As for the question of chimaera, it's possible. There's all sorts of combinations of creatures, but Georgie doesn't see the connection between that and the records.
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he hopes you put that advice to good use, georgie. during the holidays, he’ll find the drink he had asked eren for placed gently over his workplace. no name tag or anything! enjoy!!.