“I’d decided I would start my journey through this sizable continent of Aldenard via the south, the Jewel of the Desert, the city-state of Ul’dah. Unable to resist the call of new phenomena, I beat with immediately haste out onto the dusty trail deep into the territory known as Western Thanalan, the city itself would have to wait!
While I was greeted with what I was told by the locals was unusually foggy weather, I found that the light mist kept me cool in the heat and certainly only catered to the terrain’s alien and mysterious formations from the great calamity. Making them that much more enticing peeking from the swirling mists.
But I confess dear readers, it hid just as much danger as it did beauty. For that day I would learn of the ancient Alagan terror awoken from slumber known colloquially as the ‘Mirrorknight’. ”
- An excerpt from A Sharlayan Travelogue vol. XV, penned by Albeon Fulke.