[quote=@Dark Jack] In case you missed that, I meant to say that Gaath usually [I]doesn't[/I] leave only the skeleton, but mostly spot-melts people, often going for their faces or throats (in case it wasn't clear, either, the ability requires Gaath to remain in physical contact with the body for the full duration of the melting (the solvent is potent, but neutralizes quickly), so he would have to stick around the dead body for half an hour in order to leave nothing but the skeleton). So any victim Ixion found would probably not have been reduced to a skeleton, but just have its face and/or throat melted, and possibly some other unprotected spots that Gaath happened to melt during the struggle previous to the murder. Eh, going back further than four months is possible, too, though I'll still need the time from which the rumor originated so that I can determine where Gaath was at the time. (If it goes back more than nine months chances are significantly smaller that Ixion heard anything, since Gaath was out of Rodoria for three years before then. If one goes further than five years back, he wouldn't have had the ability to melt people yet, so that's as far back as it can possibly go.) [/quote] Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the clear up. As for the rumours, I was thinking that Ixion would have started to hear the rumours of Gaath at 4 months but the range of stories could be from 3 months ago to about 2 weeks ago, depending on the travel time for these rumours. M3