From its earliest days, the strange weather patterns that give the Mysterious East it’s name stem in large part from what became known in latter days as The Temple of Seasons in the Forgotten Heights.

When all the land was first being made, and the casts of the Ancient Elves were working with the breaking down of the World Bones to create natural law, they installed ancient technology to create weather patterns that would raise and create immense, lush forests for growing new and variegated forms of life to seed the rest of the planet with. They appointed a class of servants, genetically engineered over time, to tend to this garden of experimental plants and animals, as well as even spiritual forms. These became known as the Bronze Elves, the Forest Tenders.

In latter days, as thought forms among the old Ancient Elves changed rapidly, and new theories came into vogue to better reflect scientific facts, those older forms and newer forms meshed together in many different strands, to create underlying currents of mysticism. These influenced those Ancient Elves who owned and operated the Station, as they became an initiative order of cultists with more rigid scientific understanding following a particular doctrine of creative evolution. This new doctrine led to things becoming more and more bizarre, in terms of the forms of flora and fauna that were emerging, and the increasing chaos in the forest caused by the influx of seeding processes that created many energetic swells to develop in pockets of the wilderness in its domains.

Their control over the station became less understood over time, until the beliefs degraded further into a formalistic religion. This began to spread outwards, influencing other remote regions. They engaged in rituals of chaos and strangeness, and then seemingly unrelated events on the Southern Continent ramified out, and all the Ancient Elves at the Station disappeared, along with the rest of their kind. The old enchantments that obscured the weather control station remained active, and so the station was lost to time.

The rest of the slave class that became known as the Bronze Elves developed their own tradition, after being abandoned by their Gods. These eventually developed some level of bulwark against the chaos, and so they established Greatwood by use of a Girdle.

One small sect that did have some remembrance of this was what would later become known as the Woodreaves. As the original sect of caretakers that carried out the orders of the Ancient Elves they retained some knowledge of the lore through religious traditions. They used their religious knowledge to exert some minimal amount of control over the Weather Machine, which they called the Temple of Seasons. They even began to regulate its flow of weather through religious invocation of their own innate understanding of the Being of the forest. Thus the weather patterns began to be more controlled and less deadly in specific areas.

Thus was born different areas of the Mysterious East, as they are known today, and why the weather can be so extremely variegated, and the life so strange and wonderful.