The ring clicks home in the plinth, and the stone answers with a low grind. The hidden face splits open beneath the vault door, as if the manor itself finally admits the truth.
Inside the compartment lie ledgers wrapped in oilcloth, and a seal stamped with the merchant guild crest. The same lantern house mark from the ring stares back, confirming who bankrolls the mill, and who profits from the forest's scars.
Water surges through the sunken chamber, foaming at the plinth edge. The seal's disturbance wakes the flood like a warning bell, and the hidden passage shudders with it.
The Hooded Courier
So that is the house behind it.
The Mercenary Captain's old oath lands here at last, broken and exposed. He did not merely fail his employers, he served a lie that reached this deep.
Sava Nightshade
The ring was never just proof.
The ledgers bob in the rising water as the chamber seals itself around the danger below, and the hidden name on the crest becomes the new shape of the hunt.
✓ Quest Accepted
Save the ledgers from the flood
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn who bankrolls the manor scheme