This is a surviving partial text from very early on the second era, based on information from late first era. Followed by a commentary on current situation.

“There used to be reasonably large groups of people called by different names at different times and places, but with all common traits.

The most common name seems to be “seeker” though many other names are used and I will try to explain some of the other names in more detail later in this chapter, but unless otherwise noted, the term seeker is used to indicate them all.

The largest number of seekers seemed to coincide with the starting of Great Elf-Orc wars, where most seekers were killed, seemingly even in much higher proportion than the rest of the population.

All seekers seem superhuman in power in one way or other, being somewhere between normal mortals and Demigods. The more powerful seekers are almost like demigods in power.

All the seekers seem to be associated with some greater power. The powers of the seekers are different for the different seeker types, as are their associations.

The most common types seem to be “Divine Seekers” associated with gods or demigods.

The Divine Seekers seem to have close links to their gods and work as prophets and such for the churches, though not members of the church in the traditional sense and often disliked by the church hierarchy.

The second class of seekers are the elementalists, these are seekers are associated with 4 of the 6 elements.. or the 4 elements of classic magic theory.
These seekers are linked to their chosen element, employing it to great effect.

There is a group of seekers apparently associated with the life element, called Guardians, they seemed to bond to the people, animals and other life in an area, having great powers in that area, but not elsewhere.

Finally there is a group of seekers apparently associated with unlife element, called Destroyers. Thankfully they are never numerous”

The number of these seekers seems to be slowly on the upswing, probably the total number is several hundred by now, though estimating exact numbers is hard. Most common are of course those seekers following the Lords of Orhan.