Patlin
Explorer
Anvuss considers admitting a role in recovering one such tome, but decides against it. As usual, though, once he begins speaking the questions pour out of him one after another, without sensibly stopping and waiting for an answer to a previous question before posing the next.
"What is the non-mithril exotic material, and is it sufficiently exotic that we might be able to isolate a wrongdoer based on access to it? Also, who might wish to frame you for abducting your own daughter... you have eliminated Helen as a possible culprit, so who does that leave? Are you perhaps in a position to accept some sort of windfall, promotion or honor which would fall to another if you were somehow disgraced? Is it possible anyone seeks to abduct Lucy based on some ability or quality of her own, and merely seeks to shift the responsibility to you in order to help clear their own path? I've heard of magics keyed to bloodlines. Is your bloodline or helens bloodline the key to any sort of treasure, secret or place? Also, we noted it is unlikely that the pieces here if properly assembled would actually function. Do you have any way to tell whether the 'construct' was actually given motive force by a spell or power rather than through the merit of its own construction?"
"What is the non-mithril exotic material, and is it sufficiently exotic that we might be able to isolate a wrongdoer based on access to it? Also, who might wish to frame you for abducting your own daughter... you have eliminated Helen as a possible culprit, so who does that leave? Are you perhaps in a position to accept some sort of windfall, promotion or honor which would fall to another if you were somehow disgraced? Is it possible anyone seeks to abduct Lucy based on some ability or quality of her own, and merely seeks to shift the responsibility to you in order to help clear their own path? I've heard of magics keyed to bloodlines. Is your bloodline or helens bloodline the key to any sort of treasure, secret or place? Also, we noted it is unlikely that the pieces here if properly assembled would actually function. Do you have any way to tell whether the 'construct' was actually given motive force by a spell or power rather than through the merit of its own construction?"