I wonder, if we could somehow track back when they all apparently started acting up after apparently having lain inert for so long ... Would it have been at the same time?

[ though it seems hard to tell, with east ... mainly because the incident there was because of someone having scavenged material from the affected site.

perhaps the initial explosion to create the gouge, then...? hmm. ]

Given how distressed everyone has been about the wizards' disappearances, obviously this isn't exactly normal, expected cursed moon phenomena. But then we get into how and who, once again.

[ and why, but who knows. maybe there's a moon-poisoned doomsday cult in this world. ]