Elin told him what she knew.
It wasn't much. She was upfront about that - delivered the caveat before the content, the way someone hands you a small box and says "don't get excited" before you open it. The information available on the staff was fragmentary, secondhand, and built from observations rather than research. Nobody had studied it properly. Nobody who'd gotten close enough to study it had stayed close long enough to produce results.
…Except for Eiden himself.
