Early in the day on the first day of the Takvim calendar, there was a strange energy lurch, felt by powerful sensitives across the Wilderlands. Many wizards and clerics reported sudden and inexplicable bouts of vertigo, nausea, dread and disorientation that passed very quickly. Though symptoms like this are known to occur when triggering a spell sink or mana drought, this appears to have happened simultaneously across vast areas.

After this event, diverse sources reported unusual failure of magic items, and difficulties casting transportation magic. Teleport and plane shift, in particular, have become difficult to operate, taking longer to successfully cast and presenting a sudden penchant for producing bursts of spellfire. Traveling to locations marked with an arcane mark seems to produce much less of a disturbance, reducing the risk of an outburst.

More information about this event will come to light as adventurers and scholars have time to experiment and study the problem.