Thanks, Cleretic! Good to know I had the facts straight. I didn't quite remember when the Flood happened exactly, so thank you for clarifying. I'm aiming to get him there before the ARR -> HW patches begin, so this gives me plenty of wiggle room to figure something out.

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  1. There are the, for want of a better term, 'gate mages' from the caster role quests. We don't have much info on them, but that does plausibly mean you can say that one of them took a WILD shot.
  2. Like you said, Fairy Nonsense is always on the table. They weren't at full Il Mheg-level power before the Flood, but according to the Traverse they did exist.
  3. If something deliberate is more your speed, I'd say the most likely culprit is probably Ronka; we can tell they had some pretty serious juice, and thanks to the Great Serpent(s) they're already on sort of a 'suspicion list'.
  4. Judging by the Pilgrim's Traverse and the good old lineup of wacky hunting logs, you could make a plausible case that SOMETHING out there was capable of that.
  5. If all else fails, there is the applicable answer of 'sometimes rifts just happen'. If it's good enough for Clive, Noctis, and even the permanent Omega/Arkveld crossover fights, it's good enough for RP. Hell, it's possibly what happened to cause the Nier raids to happen!
Good options, all of them! He's not related to the Viis from Ronka unfortunately so I can't really use the serpent, as fun as that could be.
I do not remember gate mages at all, are they from the DT role quests? If they are unique to the Source, this gives me new ideas to cook with.


About the fae folk, my assumption without looking too far into it yet is that they all ended up in Il Mheg after the Flood, but lived separately before. Is this mentioned somewhere that they were less powerful? I remember the Pixies mentioned they previously lived in a forest that was consumed by the Flood. I do wonder if the original Pixies died then and new ones were born in what would be Il Mheg later on, if they managed to escape the Flood or something else happened...