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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3573891" data-attributes="member: 3448">“As I said, you have my Order’s thanks.  As I was explaining to Dame Brionna, the enemies that one can see have either been neutralized or are in a position where destiny weighs in your favor. The final battle with the demonlord of cats will be more vicious, but I can see that he will fail.  The binding to the land will give the Archduke another push, another strength in the struggle.  That is beyond the Abomination of Shur, and it will be defeated.“However, there is one behind.  I cannot get a clear reading.  My focus is divination, and I have spent many years attaining a mastery of my field.  But I have been unable to even see his surroundings or characteristics.  He is a master of deception, a master of lies.”“You say ‘he’ is; are you certain of the enemy’s gender then?” asked Kit.“I am certain that he is male.”Dame Brionna nodded thoughtfully.  “Based on what you’ve said, he must be enormously powerful, to be beyond such as the Abomination.  Are we talking about an evil god?”“I do not think a god,” replied Grand Dame Sophia judiciously.  “Gods are bound by the Compact, except Borsh’tro, and his stench is unmistakable.  A demon-lord, perhaps?  A Baron, an Earl?  I approached my sister, but differences in ideology and faith can blind us to what we do not wish to see.  But you can act, and I am convinced that this deceiver has infiltrated the Order of the Pure White Flame.  It has not touched my sister, but she is oblivious and will not clean her own house.  And if I understand the rules of the Order within this realm, the government cannot do anything until a crime has been committed.  Since the faith of Glor’diadel does not maintain an Inquisition… the government must keep an even more vigilant eye.”“And the government does keep a vigilant eye,” said Kit.  “But what makes you so certain that the Order of the Pure White Flame has been infiltrated?”“I have seen them in visions.  Not their faces, but there are three of them.  One is a woman who has sought refuge with them, who has some reason to hate the Archduke.”Kit closed her eyes momentarily, both in sadness and to focus her thoughts.  “Does this image match that one?”  She projected an image of Baroness Francesca’s sister into the Grand Dame’s mind.“Yes, that is the one who has fled to them.  I think she is a pawn in this.”“She is a pawn,” Kit said definitively.  “She has been hurt terribly and lied to.”“I am sorry to hear that,” replied the Grand Dame, with a tone of true compassion.  “But she will be a danger.”</blockquote>

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