A Refutation of the Phantasmal Mist (artifact)
An official inquiry by the Mayikrata into the then newly emergent The Fog, written in 1211 by a certain Master Procopion. To say that the matter is treated lightly would be an understatement, with the tone being more akin to a jape than an academical writing.
The bulk of the work consists of a point by point refutation of the increasingly frantic pleas for support by Legon Iolianos of Legio XXVI 'Exodian' sent to both the Mayikrata itself, as well as the Aeschraeist administration of Oraispol. Procopion's main arguments against the existence of the Fog are the unreliability of tribal witnesses, the intristic absurdity of a magical phenomenon not apparently associated with either the Living or Dead schools, the ability to ascribe many of the strange events sighted to more mundane reasons, and Iolianos' alleged Axiaotheaist sympathies. The idea of allowing barbarian tribes to migrate into Aversaria proper is treated with especial mockery.
Needless to say, the work did not age well, and the Mayikrata has quietly disowned it and Master Procopion a few decades after its publication.