Kahaila, the Native American Ao, have returned. With the awakening of Turtle came their reawakening with it, each of them following a dream that jolted each of them awake of Gaia's Heart, a long-extinct gnostic flower believed to bridge the physical and spiritual world naturally. They, in turn, began seeking and awakening Hatha, Native American black bears of the Dawn Tribes who possess the means to heal the land and bring fossilized flora and fauna back to life. The Gurahl understood their duty from Gaia as her healers and began reluctantly restoring communication with both the Dawn Tribes and the Children of Gaia. Margrave Josef Konietzko saw an opportunity to form a new faction, and while other tribes were still reeling from the Sundering of their Caerns, threw the full might of the Shadow Lords' support behind the Children of Gaia to launch a go-for-broke expedition deep into Pangaea to recover a specimen of this plant.
They recovered the flower, a trillium-like plant called Gaia's Heart, from fossils from the Middle Devonian Epoch, when bones first appeared. This is from a time when Gaia was so powerful; she held an omniscient awareness of her realm, and the entire Gaian Realm was as spiritually charged as a caern, held together in a fine mycelial network connecting these delicate plants. Even in Pangaea, they managed to recover a single fossilized specimen. It was enough. They were able to bring it back to life, and upon planting it on a Great Caern's bawn and carefully tending it with ancient rites, it bloomed and began producing Shard Seeds.