The object appeared on July 1, S.1178 at 17:45. Bishop Alexei of the Haliask Cathedral contacted the High Seat of the Septian Church in Arteria reporting an enormous, cloud-scraping pillar in one of the suburbs of Haliask. The High Seat immediately dispatched two Gralsritter, Dominion No. 8 Barkhorn and his squire, from a neighbouring nation. The object borrowed its name from witness accounts, which described as a pillar because of its height, hundred of arge tall as if "capable scraping the clouds". The pillar was surrounded by a hurricane of salt.