Once the echoes of the College explosion stop sometime on the 23rd, a different phenomenon takes their place. Angry and often inconvenienced kedan report that their homes, workplaces, or favourite taverns are sporting structural damage which should only happen after extreme and long-term use. A crack in the wall here, a sagging ceiling there, blackened or rusted corners - even, in a few rare cases, evidence of fire damage, despite there never having been a fire on the property.
For the most part, the structural damage always seems to be harmless -- worrying, and occasionally inconvenient (a door no longer closes properly in its frame, for example, or a window sticks and no longer opens), but harmless. Investigators may deduce that nearly all the reported cases of damage exactly match some of the damage done to the College by the initial explosion. The only exception to this is the cases of fire damage -- there was never any fire in the College, therefore never any fire damage. Even that, however, can be linked to the acrid smell of flames which persists around the blast zone until the end of April.
THE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
For the most part, the structural damage always seems to be harmless -- worrying, and occasionally inconvenient (a door no longer closes properly in its frame, for example, or a window sticks and no longer opens), but harmless. Investigators may deduce that nearly all the reported cases of damage exactly match some of the damage done to the College by the initial explosion. The only exception to this is the cases of fire damage -- there was never any fire in the College, therefore never any fire damage. Even that, however, can be linked to the acrid smell of flames which persists around the blast zone until the end of April.