I once worked for Lord Cambarth, of Cragstone.
He followed in the footsteps of Locke, and spent much time searching the
Direlands for relics of value. He was a mighty man, and reasoned that the timid
would pay well for items from those lands. He found crystalline growths in Mount
Lethe, a volcano on the mid-western coast, which made those near them feel
unaccountably weak. Believing mages would pay well for them, he hired men to
mine them out. None of the crystal they recovered left the Direlands, but he did
grow wealthy selling them to someone.