Orra Venn accompanies Mara through Baldur’s rain-darkened lanes, while Slaan and Nhal remain in Phandelver beyond the witnessed return sign. The river custodian stays with the sealed deposit.
The route ends above a bookbinder’s shop, where a cramped scriptorium smells of paste, wet wool, and old parchment. Shelves bow beneath estate ledgers and port testimonies.
Pell Arven, a middle-aged man with a narrow build, ink-stained fingers, thinning auburn hair, and a green clerk’s coat and an angular face marked by a small mole, looks up from a crowded desk.
Pell Arven
That comparison sign is older than the city’s current registry. I have seen its paired circles in inheritance disputes and protected depositions.
Orra places no hand on the chalk copy. Rain ticks against the shutters as Pell searches an index, his expression tightening beside a column of crossed-out references.
Pell Arven
One deposition was removed from the public shelves after its witness vanished. The removal was lawful on paper, but the reason remains sealed.
Pell Arven
The surviving index points toward a living connection to House Domini’s older legal history. I can show you the reference, but not decide what it means.
Gain lawful access to the missing deposition
Determine why the missing deposition was removed