Editing DissidiaTemplar West Marches/The World (section)

==Kaskotia Islands make the maps Year 390==
Not noticed until a merchant ship passed close enough to see the growing ash clouds,
a volcano erupted in the jungle island cluster known only as '''Kashotia'''. Researchers attempting
an expedition a few weeks later met disaster as multiple failures cascaded into the death 
of almost half the investigators involved. The unexpected failures confused everyone.
Tents protected by anti-heat magics caught fire. '''Sentry golems''' gave false alarms and
would not shut off. '''Haul-ants''' (cargo carrier clockworks) would suddenly start spinning
in tight circles, throwing supplies and heavier equipment around like catapults. A squad 
of hikers trying to get closer to a lava flow missed the report-in time. The second squad 
sent to check in on them found them higher up the trail, frozen in place with ice slowly 
melting off. Somehow the pipes from the portable outhouses had gotten crossed-connected with the 
cistern's storage unit. On the third evening the mess hall erupted with massive fungal growths,
destroying much of the food stocks. Several people eating nearby got sick the next day
and died over the next week from the spores they had inhaled. On day five the expedition
leader announced that they were abandoning the islands and to pack up. But even leaving 
did not go very well. Suitcase latches and crate nails were found to be corroded and bent.
Objects did not seem to fit into their custom packing boxes anymore. The decision was
made to leave most of the equipment. Finally, the ship's engines would not start.
Exhausted and wounded, the crew limped away on oars away from Kaskotia.

Eventually some scholar noticed several interesting (to them at least) coincidences about the
'''Kaskotia Islands'''. The scholar mapped the '''Hylkos Ley Line''' and saw that it passed through the 
'''Kaskotias''' also. It was estimated that the volcano originally erupted the same day '''Ahniet''' 
Acsended. Several locations downwind or down-current of '''Kaskotia''' have spikes in gossip/reports
of odd occurences and magical failures whenever '''Ahniet''' is known to do major acts of demigodness.
The scholar proposes that the '''World''' has Balance and that whenever '''Ahniet''' is drawing energy for
a '''Protection Ward''' or act of Diety, that she is causing an opposite event to occur elsewhere, 
mainly near Kaskotia. 

The scholar is shunned and hounded/exiled from '''Hylkos''' and copies of the theories destroyed when found.
Occasionally the theories resurface again, usually in non-human hands.

On many maps, '''Kaskotia''' is marked as a Cursed Place and warnings it should be avoided spread.