Editing Ash Beast (section)

===Background===
Although [[Taylor]] believes the Ash Beast originally triggered in Matruh, Egypt,<ref name="30.5 e1" /> he might have drunk a [[Cauldron vial]] to obtain his powers.<ref>For the vials, it might give you a Legend or Eidolon on your side, but it might give you a Siberian or Ash Beast, or worse. Each try of vial or bigger project is a gamble, whether you're talking about giving a good candidate an extreme vial or giving a powerful and frequently unbalanced parahuman the ability to create an army. Every time, you're flipping a coin. Early on in the Cauldron efforts, they didn't know any better, so there were lots of coin flips, and they mostly made out okay. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/94800397| archived] on Spacebattles</ref> He has been roaming around [[Africa]] ever since.<ref name="30.5 e1" />

People could see him coming from miles away because he usually traveled on foot. As a result, by the time he reached a settlement, it had been evacuated.<ref name="30.5 e1">I reached out to Ash Beast, a living force of nature. It had originally triggered in Matruh, Egypt, and had been roaming since, making its way across Africa. All of the destructive power of any class S threat, tempered by the fact that it usually traveled on foot, and people could see it coming from miles away. When it reached a settlement, that settlement was usually evacuated.<br><br>An unending explosion, a rolling mass of fire and smoke with a person at the center. Here and there, it took physical form. Whether it was the fire or a massive leonine claw that tore into the ground, it produced the debris, dust and ash that was its namesake, driven along the ground by the perpetual storm of fire. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> Although people tried to control Ash Beast, to steer him in the general direction of their enemies, it rarely worked for long.<ref name="30.5 e2">Creating a portal to give me access to it was troublesome. Others had tried to control it before, to steer it in the general direction of their enemies. Warlords, villains, masterminds. It rarely worked for long. When working with power on this scale, chaos had a way of trumping order. Too much energy disrupted the portals. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>