The answers to these questions only the Gods know.
What we do know is that eventually there came a tale the bards of the desert began to tell.
"When the Winds of Windscour surge and swell, beware the song of the woman and the well."
Its lyrics have been lost, or erased, or destroyed. Those who remember have all but passed from this world to the next. Or maybe they're simply words that haven't been written yet.
Still, it has been whispered, moaned, and with delicious agony cried that the song will sing to the hunger inside. You'll be engulfed with a warmth, that turns to a blaze. Your lips will grow cracked; your throat bone dry. And in the pit of your stomach just above your groin, a creeping need will fill you.
The coolest water will not sate you, nor the richest wine, nor most succulent fruit. Everything tastes of ashes instead of sweetness or salt, everything is just shy of what you need. But what you need you can't quite say. A familiar melody you know but for the life of you can't name. Growing ever more insistent its lodged in your brain. You can't drown it in liquor or smother it in pleasure and no prayer for salvation is ever answered. It only looms larger as the days pass. Reaching into every nook and cranny of your mind. Expanding till there's nothing else but weeping tears, screaming need and pain. Most would go mad; some would choose death. But a pitiful few are cursed or blessed with a strange revelation.
It always varies, whether by telling or by person it is not clear. Whether it brings forth what was hidden, or takes the place of what's been stolen, we cannot say.
It is however always depraved. Drenched in the darker aspects of Aersus and Cuvehr's play. It is enough to say that once they know they can be sated, they are not the same. These poor children are forever changed.
All compassion, empathy, and respect fade. Unabashed selfishness and cruelty remain. Beholden only in their needs being met, with no care for boundaries or consent. Soon they smile and whisper with mysterious grins. Humming a strange tune only they seem to hear on the winds.
Until one night they vanish. Fading from memory as simply mad women and men. Never to be seen or heard from again. But not whisked away from their beds in a moment. Rather they journey on a pilgrimage to the deepest heart of the desert. Where the source of the song of gluttony lies. Where a woman once mortal, let her mortality die. Under a moon, full, pale and white. Surrounded by bones with rutting bodies beside.
"So, when the Winds of Windscour surge and swell, beware the song of the woman and her well."