Whether by a stroke of luck or sheer force of will, riveners are the result of an incomplete or failed attempt by kaortis to convert the creatures and environment of this dimension to be more like their own. The kaorti are an alien people from the Far Realm. They are said to have originated from a group of ancient elves who opened a Vast Gate to puncture the barrier between reality and the outer madness. Within minutes of passing through the gate to enter the Far Realm, they were transformed into a deranged facsimile of their former selves, now known as the kaorti. After untold eons in the Far Realm, their curiosity drove them to pursue a kernel of a memory of their former home, tracing what little fragments of the Material Plane they could find back to their source. Kaortis who have made their way to the known multiverse exist solely to overwhelm and transform our worlds to resemble their extradimensional home.
