Inadvertently. I...as it was explained to me after, the results of what had happened to me gave my much more scholarly colleagues the clues they needed to progress forward.

[So yes. He really did kind of save everyone.]

Dynamis draws its power from emotion. Or...something like that. My emotion was strong enough to overpower hers. So long as my desire for them to survive remained stronger than her desire to claim them...that landscape existed, and could support life.

The very ground on which they stood. The air they had to breathe. [He draws a slow breath.] It endured for them, so long as my resolve did.