Graf
Explorer
That's what we're trying to establish....The idea seems great, but there is something that ,maybe with my limited understanding of English, I'm loosing:
Which could be the motivation for the search of the missing writer? I mean, sure, he has good informants, and tells the truth (as we say here, with no hair in his tong) but it's just a mysteriously sensationalist paper publisher. I think there should be someone very interested in founding him, or limited to Dauton characters who could develop some sort of emotional feeling or duty feeling about the missing guy.
Palindrome's mentor is an arcanist, he could easily
1) assume magic is involved
2) want to find out more
Woe may be connected because he has an existing relationship with Palindrome going back to something that happened 10 years ago. (I leave it up to the players to decide...)
As for other characters? It depends on what we can come up with as a rational.