"Having elevated to the stature requisite to assume the mantle of Kapo over the Thirteenth Ward, wherefore did he seek out and claim dominion over the Twentieth Ward?"
"I, too, failed to fathom it. The paramount absolute for cultivators are the resources they glean from the academy, and knowing full well these would dwindle, he assumed the mantle of Kapo over a ward of inferior standing."
"I heard tales that he was banished. They inflicted retribution upon him on the grounds that he conducted himself with an excess of benevolence toward the Thirteenth Ward!"
At the vanguard of those who disentangled themselves from the whines of the mortals who had forfeited their positions, stood the paramount topic of the diurnal cycle: Baybars's alteration of station. Mel learned that one of the instruments the Red Claw Academy wielded to incite them were Energy Crystals; the lower a ward's numerical designation, the more bountiful their yield.
