Narset led the Jeskai as waymaster, a position earned through the rebellion and burdened by everything that followed it. The Stormnexus Ritual had produced the five spirit dragons and broken the elder dragonlords' hold, but the dragonstorms did not settle into harmless weather. They widened, changed the land and produced wild dragons in unfamiliar forms. Settlements saw water and earth move against old maps. Creatures carried scales and other draconic traits. The victory had removed one danger while disturbing a system nobody fully understood.
Elspeth brought the crisis beyond Tarkir's horizon. Having encountered dragonstorms on other planes, she warned that the phenomenon was travelling through the Multiverse. Narset reasoned that Ugin had once steadied Tarkir's storms by his very presence. With the spirit dragon absent, and with the rebellion's ritual having drawn on the storm nexus, the plane no longer possessed the balance it once had. Elspeth proposed revisiting the ritual; Narset heard the possibility of another well-meant intervention whose consequences would be paid by everyone else.
A wild dragon's attack turned theory into immediate danger. Narset and Elspeth protected Jeskai children, but Taigam used the incident to press a harder political line. He argued that an outsider and another experimental remedy were risks the clan should refuse. As waymaster, Narset publicly denied Elspeth the Jeskai's support. Then she separated office from conscience: the clan would not go, but Narset herself could. Leaving her people was not an escape from leadership. It was an admission that the threat crossed every border her title could defend.