They say the Third City was famed for its cuisine, before it Fell. They say that hourglasses made with black sand from the Fourth City take a different time to run through on each turn. They say a lot of things.
They say the broken, tarnished silver tree at the heart of the Forgotten Quarter was once a living birch, that it was transformed into a fountain at the Fourth City's Fall. […] They say that the Masters know everything and nothing about this.