Before the sisters can depart, heavy footsteps enter through the eastern markers. Sir Silas Mori, a hulking young adult man with cropped dark hair, a massive frame, and deathly black armor, carries a shrouded body across his shoulders.
The paladin lowers the corpse before Maerith’s tombstone with surprising care. One stiffened hand remains clenched around a blackened fragment of a winged figurine, its edges faintly smoking.
Sir Silas Mori
He was dying when I found him beyond the eastern road. Before death claimed his voice, he named House Orlaith again and again.
Silver inscriptions flicker across the surrounding graves. Letters vanish beneath the moonlight, and the pale relic contracts until its cold ember barely illuminates the corpse’s hand.
the cloaked wizard
That fragment bears the old shape. The artifact is not merely traveling. It is being broken, piece by piece.
Astraya Orlaith
Then someone fears what the whole figurine might reveal. Silas, where did this traveler come from, and who was pursuing him?
Caspien remains beyond the eastern markers with the opened charter, watching the fading names. Astraya stays beside Dyanara, while Silas turns toward Maerith’s dimming grave.
✓ Quest Accepted
Recover the blackened figurine fragment
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn who pursued the traveler
“*I walk over to him and kneel down to look upon the dead man.* “Silas, if you don’t mind I would have the figurine he was carrying.””
SUCCESS (Good Diplomacy, rolled -1)
Dyanara crosses the eastern markers and kneels beside the dead traveler, a young adult man with a lean build, a gaunt pale face, close-cropped brown hair, and a torn charcoal coat and trousers, with a burn scar crossing one cheek. Ash clings to his clothes, and the blackened fragment rests rigidly in his clenched hand.
Dyanara Orlaith
Silas, if you do not mind, I would have the figurine he was carrying.
Sir Silas Mori
I do not mind. But take it carefully, Lady Orlaith. It has burned through stronger gloves than mine.
Silas pries the dead man’s fingers loose and places the smoking fragment in Dyanara’s waiting hand. Its winged shape is unmistakably part of the old figurine.
The fragment bites with sudden heat. A black crescent brands her palm before the cold ember gutters, leaving the relic solidly in her possession.
Sir Silas Mori
The cost announces itself quickly. Whatever this thing is, it recognizes House Orlaith’s blood.
At Maerith’s tombstone, the remaining silver letters flare once, then fade. Astraya watches the marked hand while the cloaked wizard leans toward the fragment’s broken edge.
Quest Complete
Recover the blackened figurine fragment
+ New Item Acquired
Blackened figurine fragment