Vijkastra Misseer had traveled around Olessar
testing her experimental spell scrolls by coercing burgeoning and
untrained spellcasters into attempting this unknown magic on unwilling
bystanders. She was researching and developing a new type of summoning spell, one that replaces one being for another.
Nesdin was arrested in Rookmore after a shady figure paid him to read aloud an unknown spell scroll. Doing so transformed a patron of The Crucible into a Lemure, which attacked and burned nearby citizens before being subdued. Magnus "Johnson" Thaumalor released Nesdin, connected the incidents to similar ones in Vaati, Ra'Munda, and Highbrothers, and set off to find the source.