Puzzler's Space

Puzzle 1: Ban Songqi's shoes were once brilliant sun yellow. But as the sun fades while the ages pass, so did Songqi's shoes; the gold was long ago browned by mud and bleached by wear. Now Ban Songqi's shoes are naught but a dull gray.

Puzzle 2: There was no such battle. In the seven-and-seven-hundredth reign of the Semi-Immortal Paragon of the Fifth Virtue of Heaven, Avkakathip Tolvittrakhar-Thakartravit, the Assembly of Retaining Avarice had only twelve members. The thirteenth had died of old age five days before, and they had yet to appoint a new member. That is what was meant by Grand Archivist Kathiatrakivis of the Khwiu clan (now spelled Liu) when he wrote "Only twelve survived." The conflict mentioned in the scribe Atrakhanaikahr of the Khatatkar-dwellers's A Comprehensive History of the Assembly of Retaining Avarice (and Other, Related Organisations) During the Tolvittrakhar-Thakartravit Period is at best, only an exaggeration of a simple debate, or at worst, a complete fabrication.

Puzzle 3: It is said by the nomads on the large island of Jakoa that every 1000 years, a single mangrove tree will bear a single seed that sprouts on land instead of on the sea. And again every 1000 years, a single sea-dwelling mangrove will bear no offspring at all, and die off completely. When every tree, in every grove, on every continent grows on the land and not in the sea, only then shall they wreak their terrible vengeance.