By comparing Shattering damage, regional fluctuations, and repeated manifestations, Elyrian scholar Zoltheris Wynfield identified vast patterns in the movement of Aether. Several of those patterns appeared to intersect beneath Elyra.
The intersection became known as The Elyrian Confluence.
“The Confluence is not a well from which we draw. It is a crossing through which something moves. Every disturbance we create returns changed.” — Zoltheris Wynfield
Elyrian researchers explored applications in healing, agriculture, construction, and other fields, while refusing exclusive control of the discovery to either Orenth or Caelora.
As tensions around Elyra grew, Wynfield's later writings became increasingly urgent.
“The readings are no longer returning to baseline.” — Zoltheris Wynfield
“They still believe the danger is each other.” — Zoltheris Wynfield
What happened afterward would leave a scar on Talvara that still bears Elyra's name.