Seeking to restore the great World Tree to health, Rhaea Thalion spoke
to many craftsmen of Sapience in search of one who could carve a tap to
physically drain corruption from the tree. At last she found one able to
aid her in the person of Thaa'lis, the Tsol'aa druid of the Aalen.
Rhaea, Thaa'lis, Rosalind, and others slowly formulated a plan to cure
the tree and began to assemble the necessary components.

Thaa'lis asked Halitherses of Scidve to make the tap, then coated the
wood with diamond dust provided by Rhaea in order to seal the tap
against the decay caused by corruption. The Tsol'aa druid then created
three special buckets able to hold the corrupted sap without corroding
away quickly. Meanwhile, other forestals sought out elemental ice and
vardrax poison. When all was ready, Thaa'lis and a great number of
forestals met and put their plan into action.

A small group led by Vasilus Ta'Ros-Terl carried the ice and vardrax to
the exposed roots of Yggdrasil on the River Perilaus. There, they poured
the vardrax upon the roots and placed the ice, causing the corruption
and sap to run up the tree. In the hollow of the great tree containing
the Flame, Rhaea drove the tap into the wood and placed the buckets
beneath it to catch the sap. Led by their guildmaster Rosalind
Fiadhaich, the Druids began to perform rituals to keep the tree from
losing too much sap in the expulsion of corruption, and others joined
in.

When each bucket was filled with corrupted sap, intrepid flyers took
them to a group waiting in Enorian by the mirror of purity, which had
the power to cleanse the buckets. By organizing a bucket chain, the
forestals and others were able to ensure that only a few drops of
corruption landed upon the ground. However, disaster struck in the form
of Rellin, who seized two buckets. One he gave to Van, who gave it to
Skyrax. The chaos lord lowered the bucket into a pool of corruption,
where it vanished in a flash of light. The other bucket Rellin carried
to the Magi Guildhall, where he was slain and the bucket retrieved.
However, by this time Wyle had slain a large number of the forestals
inside Yggdrasil and the ice had been withdrawn from the roots to stop
the corruption from flowing onto the ground with no buckets to capture
it. Left too long, the sap inside the tap dried and clogged the flow,
ending the valiant attempt at healing in failure.

Several months later, Rhaea again led the forestals in the same healing
plan. This time she organized them more carefully to maintain secrecy. A
straw was obtained from Frannie, an irascible Spirean farmer. With
Halitherses' help, the forestals melted a small hole in the dried sap
clogging the tap using the straw and a bucket of boiling water. The flow
of corruption began again, this time slower.

Again, misfortune struck. Sigfried Cardinalis seized one of the buckets
and absconded with it. Although the gathered forestals were able to use
the one remaining bucket to purge the tree of its taint, the corruption
that they could not catch fell upon the ground. This corruption damaged
the Flame of Yggdrasil, leaving it shrunken and dimmed.

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Lanosian, in the year 157 MA.