Thes was still missing, but he was for certain still alive.

Mest’s friends are leaving two days from now, they still need to do something. I don’t remember what it was because it was honestly pretty boring, something to do with paperwork maybe? I made sure to ask Toreth the Akan dungeon specialist to give me something that would describe what I could expect as my core matures, and he gave me a copy of his notes. Apparently, he is really good at writing with magic, like almost as good as I am at manipulating plants good. Apparently, it has to do with his species, Akan were developed by a small group of Origin to help them archive information, they later turned that skill towards mass producing books with important information for their order.

That got me wondering about something, creatures specifically designed to be intelligent have existed for a very long time, much longer than the three hundred years since the first non-Origin sentient. So why didn’t a creature gain sentience until roughly three hundred years ago? And a troll no less, I mean trolls aren’t stupid or anything, but they certainly aren’t known for their intelligence. I thought that maybe there was something I’m missing, so I asked the scholars available to me. Apparently, the question was one many of their order have asked many times, but the general consensus is that obtaining sentience is hard, and mana makes it easier, so the increasing ambient mana density made it easier for creatures to obtain sentience. This kind of makes sense, but then why was a troll the first to gain sentience? They aren’t affected at all by mana. Apparently, that particular troll is super old, like thousands of years old according to some Origin that knew him before he became sentient, this easily makes him one of the oldest living creatures. In addition to that, he is really smart, likely on account of his age, and had a reincarnated soul that managed to keep some memories, all of which helped him obtain sentience without the benefit of mana. Sentience among trolls is still pretty rare.

Apparently, it was years before the first sentient came across another, even with Origin being ready and willing to help. One of the visiting scholars even mentioned that the second sentient was an ancestor of Mest’s. they were a Tiefling, a lesser form of Demon pretty close on the Demon evolutionary tree to Devils. In the end they died of old age.

One last thing before I go to sleep, apparently the Kobolds have started evolving into Greater Kobolds, actually, they started more than a month ago. I didn’t notice because the only real difference visually between a Kobold and a greater Kobold, the greater Kobold is slightly taller on average, and has slightly more lustrous scales, but that's about it. Even when healing them there isn’t much difference until I really look for it, then I see that everything just works better, it’s overall design is improved in subtle but effective ways. It was actually pretty interesting to study, and will no doubt be useful if I ever try to make a Kobold Ent, or properly learn Flesh Manipulation.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.