Corey had always wondered what he was going to see or encounter after reaching the top of the Eternal Waterfall.
According to what he heard and learned from Ryan, those who were able to reach the top of the waterfall and returned alive either lived a terrible life afterwards or ended up killing themselves.
None had been able to write down or say what they saw at the top of the Eternal Waterfall. There was a time when an Ascendant reached the top of the waterfall, desiring to obtain the fabled power of the two Old Ones.
However, she returned with her life barely intact. Other Ascendants, Dreadkeepers, and Tainteds who were paying attention to the situation of the Shattered noticed her return.
The Ascendants tried to garner information from the Ascendant, however, to their surprise and horror, the Ascendant lost control and mutated into an abomination.