From the notebook of Filira Salazar Caradini, member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis:
... unfortunately, Mac'Od Bittty's researches, as indeed my own, show that that substance the Rotoas might emitt - or the effect they have on Kitins anyway - is limited in impact to the white Kitins of the Deep and has no effect whatever on the Kitins more or less natural on the bark. That would imply that while the Rotoas were able until now to adapt to an environment not natural to them, they were not able to evolve that far to adapt to the Kitins which are assimilated on the bark for a long time already. They affect only the Kitins whose natural surroundings they use to share, down in the roots. This is a setback in a way, for it makes every research towards an anti-Kitin remedy more complicated. However, if we are able to distill something which affects those Kitins invading the bark again and again, it would make living for us Matis, for all hominkind much easier ...
... unfortunately, Mac'Od Bittty's researches, as indeed my own, show that that substance the Rotoas might emitt - or the effect they have on Kitins anyway - is limited in impact to the white Kitins of the Deep and has no effect whatever on the Kitins more or less natural on the bark. That would imply that while the Rotoas were able until now to adapt to an environment not natural to them, they were not able to evolve that far to adapt to the Kitins which are assimilated on the bark for a long time already. They affect only the Kitins whose natural surroundings they use to share, down in the roots. This is a setback in a way, for it makes every research towards an anti-Kitin remedy more complicated. However, if we are able to distill something which affects those Kitins invading the bark again and again, it would make living for us Matis, for all hominkind much easier ...
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
Royal Historian
Member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis
First Seraph of the Order of the Argo Navis