Whitestream Village was struck by a century-severe drought. Rivers dried up, fields cracked, and the villagers faced starvation. The village head, Hubert Gille, led the people to beg Shaman Carson Shaw for help. Carson used his shamanic power to bring rain, saving the village at the cost of losing his powers for thirty years. In gratitude, Head Gille decreed that the village would support Carson for a hundred years. Thereafter, Whitestream Village prospered with abundant harvests.Thirty years later, the new head, May Gille, seeing Carson idle and receiving support without work, expelled him from the village. Carson warned of an imminent locust plague that would wipe out the village, but May dismissed him and had him drowned in a pond. When the locusts came, Carson still rescued the village, yet May credited the Agricultural Academy instead. The villagers, convinced Carson was a fraud, drove him away.
Carson led a few followers to rebuild elsewhere. He instructed them to throw their seeds into a lake.
