Torn's Rest

The disdain for the followers of Torn's teachings comes from what many in Wilder called "The Rot Price." A devout Aarakocran Conclave member named Speara devoted her life to studying the rot and understanding it. She visisted distant lands, learning foreign trades and ingraining herself in their technologies. She came back and created the first of hundreds of workshops in the central Kindred Isle. Fabrication, artificery, and gearwork were iterated on and mastered on the island, even putting to shame great dwarven smiths. 

The people of Wilder and beyond were delighted, integrating these marvels into their everyday lives. It is when they became reliant on them that Speara revealed that the secrets of her technologies were not from dwarven or human hands, but had its origins instead of the secrets revealed studying the rot. She expected the people of the Kindred Isle to finally change their views on the rot and embrace it. Instead, she was burned alive and the Torn Conclave was slaughtered to nearly a person.

The Rot Price saw the Kindred intentionally set themselves back decades of progress, removing every mechanical contraption they could find. They refused to approach, Torn's Rest, however (some say they could not due to some malevolent force) and so the island, its surrounding waters, and the lands nearby remained mechanically altered, but now lost to the slow decay of nature and time.

Now, with the rot returning in abundance to the isle, the Torn Conclave has strengthened its numbers, as Kindred return from around Vault to take up the cause of their ancestors. Whatever communion with the rot they have, is now being kept secret, for fear of another reprisal. Though the time may soon come where the Torn Conclave outnumbers even the nobility of Wilder.