Draiss shook his head, as the proxies had missed the most important point. "I agree that destroying the lockets would reduce the risk, but the issue is that the individuals that have already made deals can cause more 'taints' among the non-tainted. My constructs have identified at least six dozen with that ability, but the original sources can not be identified, even with dozens of survey drones scouring the planes. The problem is the Beyonder themselves, which are apparently divided. Some seem to be almost helping us, while others are doing as much damage as possible, the marilith goddess being the most obvious offender. If her original ritual had succeeded at its original purpose, the entire material realm would have died. Not one plane, but all of them. We would have imploded, and nothing would have stopped it. Only her own ignorance as to the proper shaping of ritualistic runes stopped her, and now that she has viewed the Book of True Knowledge the Inevitables kept in their vaults, I am working under the worst case scenario that she is attempting to preform the ritual again, but this time with the correct runes, and taking at least a handful of decades to set it up."