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Normally uneventful villages in the Kysei region have begun waking up to reports of a mysterious increase in fires of any kind. Forest fires have been starting and raging out of control in several cases, before finally being trampled by a combination of local efforts and outside assistance. The harvests of some farmers have been found in smoulders, as if burned away in the dead of night.

In rare cases, buildings catch fire in the dead of night, rousing villagers from their sleep and claiming a few lives for those unfortunate enough to not make it out alive. Even rarer still are times where those houses and the people in them go up in flames in times so short that it's hard to imagine they were even there, if you didn't know them already.

Interestingly, night watches set up to figure out the mysterious cause of this rampant increase in arson, while they haven't been able to single out a culprit, have noticed something very strange indeed. Molten rock cooling not far from the scene of many of the incidents, though far from any perceived active volcanic activity. Which begs the question...

...what's going on here?