Both the Kontacet and Schraber families gave consent to have detailed information released regarding the spellcrafter cross, which I, by the way, had returned to the former. And the background story certainly never failed to interest me.
Alexander Kontacet, in 1276, commissioned for the spellcrafter cross to be made in "the Vaults" in Budlapeyay, Tandeiyah. The reason here was not disclosed to us. But regardless, Kontacet picked it up in person in October of that year and took it home to Jestopole. Five years later, in October 1281, Alexander Kontacet took it with him to an event in the Lerutan Theatre where, in the back of the audience, a masked figure threw a sack over Kontacet's head and forcibly took the spellcrafter cross from him. From this event arose a great deal of suspicion that the incident was tied to the Weyne-North feud. Despite the suspicion, the Kontacet family, wishing to avoid extra and unnecessary publicity, pulled ropes to have the press not give too much attention to the ordeal. Five months after the incident, an anonymous person found the spellcrafter cross along a sidewalk in a relatively dangerous area in the East side of Lerutan, Ereautea. The finder, in good faith, turned the cross back to the authorities, stating that it was found damaged. The thief who attacked Kontacet was never found or identified. Regardless, the authorities handed the spellcrafter cross back to Alexander Kontacet, who decided to fly it back to Budlapeyey to have it placed in a safe place in "the Vaults." He decided to wait until a later time to have it repaired.
The spellcrafter cross would not be repaired until the Kontacets decided to lend it to the Schraber family, the very same Schraber family, by the way, of whom one member is currently the Retunian Prime Minister.
The details here are not clear, but sometime between the 1270s and 1330s, Stephen Schraber, Alex Schraber's older brother, asked the Kontacet family to borrow said spellcrafter cross, thus the reason for the borrowing in the first place. The Schraber family would subsequently pay to have it repaired and restored. Accordingly, it was an essential tool to be used for some sort of field research project. In the course of that, the cross passed into the possession Kelvin Schraber, who took the spellcrafter cross with him to the Lerutan Theater in October 1338, where, once again, it was forcibly stolen in the same fashion. Very much like the Kontacet family, the Schrabers pushed for a wide search and investigation but also pulled ropes to have the press not give too much publicity. Only this time, the search turned up nothing.
It was not until my encounter with Albin Gene that the spellcrafter cross was found again.
We are still in the midst of figuring out the details of Albin Gene and how he came to infiltrate social networks as far out as Ereautea. But here is what we know so far.
Albin was a student at Cabotton University between the years 1334 and 1336, during which he was a Member of the Third Level Society. However, his reputation turned sour rather quickly as he voiced how convinced he was that he had a "higher calling." He joined the Pagewriter Guild in 1335, the same year he decided to run for the Third Level Society Dungeonmaster position. Fortunately, he would lose that election, after which he decided to terminate his Membership with the Society and focus more on getting some sort of a promotion in the Pagewriter Guild. His reputation here, however, turned notorious for very much the same reason. And in the spring of 1336, he was kicked out of the Guild.
At that point, he resolved to set down roots in Ancondria.
Upon moving to Kearney, Albin Gene became convinced, and was somehow able to persuade others around him, that he was the Master Pagewriter. He also formed a belief that, with Ancondria being the place of humanity's origin, he was called to establish a dymensional plane covering all of the known world of Circlaria, and to have that plane include a central point of origin in Ancondria. And by the time of my arrival, his dymensional-plane-in-progress had already covered all of Ancondria with great detail and accuracy.
Though he had a strong band of followers, Albin Gene sought to persuade more people, which he determined could be achieved with the spellcrafter egg. He commissioned an unknown source to have one made, but, such a commission would take time. Thus, Gene sought to dispatch a burglar to steal a spellcrafter cross already made. We still do not know the thief who carried out this act but we have an idea that it may have been some insider posing as one of Schraber's many trusted friends.
Regardless, we also know, through Gene's confession, that he had planned to recruit insiders within organizations like the Third Level Society in order to subjugate them from the inside out.
Though followers in this dynamic tend to take their own initiative once the said leader is eliminated or incapacitated, I feel satisfied that we have at least weakened Albin Gene's circle in Ancondria.