Prior to the update, the “Great Witch’s Curser” item functioned incorrectly. When players attempted to cast the Curser to free Faelivrin without killing the witch, the game’s logic gate failed. Instead of severing the enslavement runes, the Curser would patch itself onto the elf’s soul, creating a recursive loop.
If you’d like, I can expand this into: the elven slave and the great witchs curser patched
Kaelen tries to remove the patches, freeing the elven souls. But each soul he frees accelerates the curse’s hunger for him . His left hand begins to turn to obsidian — the first stage of becoming a permanent patch. Prior to the update, the “Great Witch’s Curser”
: A wanderer who takes the elven slave under his wing. If you’d like, I can expand this into:
The witch watched as the unintended exchange unfolded. She had wanted to unmake arrogance by sewing a conscience where none had been, but the world balked at being neat. Observing Arieth, however, the witch took a different measure of success. If a single stitch could make a slave feel the master’s dread, then perhaps a longer seam—one of action—could sew a new outline for both.