Perhaps you found it already but the guy that speaks of this is a geologist in the Jasper Ward, in a house near the north entrance to the malchous forest, I believe. I do think there is something greater going on on the wasteland, I know about the pulse Gardorbor, but the way in which the wasteland "behaves" (like in the beldum event) can suggest otherwise. Of course, it could just be just "break the fourth wall" jokes too.