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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3544240" data-attributes="member: 3448">“There are a few more tasks we should try to get done today, starting with the woman with the lynx jewelry.  Since she isn’t the Baroness, she must be someone else in the City.”“Yes, your grace.  It would be stupid to spend so much time on stopping the Harlequins only to allow a much less dangerous assassin to make an attempt.”  Dame Brionna adjusted her armor as she thought.  “Perhaps Reverend Canon Toddle could detect her?”“Worth a try,” said Kit.  “Besides, he’s always at least entertaining.”They called the diviner over and asked if he knew anything of the woman assassin with lynx jewelry.“Yes… She walks often in my dreams.”“Have you seen anything distinctive about her?  Any way we might recognize her?” asked Dame Brionna.“She dresses in beautiful clothes, but the lynx is her only jewelry.  Or almost her only jewelry--she wears earrings.  Those earrings.  They are opals, but carved to look like drops of blood.  Beyond that, I see nothing of her.”“Opals like drops of blood?  Ugh.  Anybody know what that could mean?” asked Kit.“There are two possibilities I can think of,” said Alistair.  “There is a subgroup of the Sisters of the Weeping Woman who use drops of blood as port of their symbols, instead of the more normal tears.  And the actual priesthood of Borsh’tro--not the priests of the servant deities, not the various demon cultists, but the priesthood of Borsh’tro directly--use drops of blood as part of their symbology.  I fear the second group is more likely, though I was not aware of any priests of Borsh’tro in this region, or even on Drucien at all.”“It fits the overall plan well, your grace.  But even if we know more of what she is, how do we find her?”“Perhaps the Eshen Bladelord would know something?”“He won’t cooperate honorably like the Drow, your grace.”“No.  But we might be able to trick him into cooperating all the same.”</blockquote>

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