[From what little he had learned from Claude, and what Jeralt had told him in conjunction with Sothis's theories about the current state of Fódlan, it seemed a lot of his world's ills were born from human desire and crossing the line, damn the consequences, in pursuit of that.]
Let me try and recall the specifics from the books...
[Excuse him as he boots up his memory to dredge up whatever information he remembered from the books.]
Book one: "mirror shards". These were shards of a mirror that had been imbued with time magic, and it was highly unstable - having more than one causes that magic to act unpredictably. Book two: "the Sarmonia". This was a bird-beast whose cry allegedly sounded like "the dying". It was created to be used as livestock to consume, its growth accelerated through time magic. Symptoms almost similar to the Blight...
[Hmm...]
But the creature was unfinished. It's said its creation was to help 'save their kingdom', so I assume they were suffering from food shortages, or the threat of one.
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[From what little he had learned from Claude, and what Jeralt had told him in conjunction with Sothis's theories about the current state of Fódlan, it seemed a lot of his world's ills were born from human desire and crossing the line, damn the consequences, in pursuit of that.]
Let me try and recall the specifics from the books...
[Excuse him as he boots up his memory to dredge up whatever information he remembered from the books.]
Book one: "mirror shards". These were shards of a mirror that had been imbued with time magic, and it was highly unstable - having more than one causes that magic to act unpredictably. Book two: "the Sarmonia". This was a bird-beast whose cry allegedly sounded like "the dying". It was created to be used as livestock to consume, its growth accelerated through time magic. Symptoms almost similar to the Blight...
[Hmm...]
But the creature was unfinished. It's said its creation was to help 'save their kingdom', so I assume they were suffering from food shortages, or the threat of one.
[...]
That's all I recall from the books, I'm afraid.