Stormchasing was a sacred quest undertaken by Knights Academic in the First Age of Flight. Knights would fly a sky ship into the heart of a Great Storm bound for the Twilight Woods, and wait for the storm to discharge a bolt of stormphrax. The Knight Academic would then quickly retrieve the stormphrax before it became weighted down in absolute darkness, and return to Sanctaphrax with it. Quode Quanx-Querix, Philius Embertine, and Twig all completed stormchasing quests successfully; however, the majority of stormchasers failed to return, and were lost in the Twilight Woods for all eternity.