The fixed crown and falcon sigils flare across the graveyard. Through the silver grass, Caspien Ashveil enters alone, a tall, lean young half-elf in deep blue and silver, dark cropped hair, and a scholar’s cape. A sealed genealogical charter rests in his gloved hand.
No guard follows him. He slows before the weathered stones, deep blue-green eyes moving from the crowned falcon mark to Astraya, then briefly toward Dyanara and the cloaked wizard.
Caspien Ashveil
Astraya Orlaith. I had heard House Orlaith’s surviving blood had gathered beneath this omen, but I did not expect the graveyard to confirm it.
Astraya Orlaith
And I did not expect the Ashveil heir to arrive carrying parchment instead of soldiers. That makes this either diplomacy or desperation.
Caspien raises the sealed charter without breaking its wax. The celestial signs brighten above him, and the pale relic answers with a cold pulse that disturbs the surrounding graves.
the cloaked wizard
The artifact’s trail may be bound to a name erased from House Orlaith’s records. Until that name is restored, every claim remains vulnerable.
The nearest tombstone splits along an old inscription, revealing a second line beneath the dust. Its silver letters remain incomplete, waiting beneath the moonlit sigils.
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn whether the erased name implicates House Orlaith
“So, what will it be Lord Ashveil. *I reach my hand out to him. To shake his hand or read the parchment his choice.*”
SUCCESS (Good Diplomacy, rolled +1)
Dyanara Orlaith
So, what will it be, Lord Ashveil?
Dyanara extends her hand between them, palm open beside the sealed charter. The gesture offers Caspien a choice: fellowship sealed by touch, or truth revealed in ink.
Caspien Ashveil
Truth first, Lady Orlaith. A handshake can follow when the names beneath this dust are known.
Caspien places the charter into Dyanara’s waiting hand, then breaks the dark wax himself. The parchment unfolds, covered in branching genealogies and marginal notes written in several careful hands.
Caspien Ashveil
This record was hidden in an Ashveil archive. It names an Orlaith ancestor who received the artifact, not from the locals, but from a court envoy bearing a forgotten crest.
A matching symbol kindles beneath the dust on the split tombstone. Its silver letters complete themselves: Maerith, Keeper of the Veiled Flame, bound by blood to House Orlaith.
Astraya Orlaith
Maerith. I have heard that name in forbidden songs. If the charter is true, our family did not merely inherit the curse. We inherited its key.
Identify the forgotten crest
Quest Complete
Learn whether the erased name implicates House Orlaith
+ New Item Acquired
Genealogical Charter