I'll share my ruminations with Makkay when I see her next, but the emergence of the Toxic Alliance raises so many new questions about the krait and their situation in the deeper ocean. Current academic discourse suggests that the krait, among other species of the ocean, are contending with an Elder Dragon or its abyssal minions—at least, according to the accounts of quaggan refugees. Of course, the threat could also be something of the late Zhaitan's influence. Too soon to tell. Based on what we know, when the krait's prophets ascend, the location of ascension is often marked with a small obelisk. These prophets are said to have traveled to a new plane, popularly theorized to be some crude form of Mists transversal. The krait believe that these prophets will return with a new army to dominate Tyria from its depths to its shores, but no such event has been seen and recorded. Has this Scarlet Briar offered the krait some way to contact their lost prophets, and maybe even bring them back from wherever they ended up? How do the Nightmare Court factor into all of this, if at all?