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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4573513" data-attributes="member: 3285">Purity and Corruption: Part 2 – A SeerTraevus val’Virdan was the first of the named ‘witnesses’ on the list provided by Caius.  “You sure this is the place?” asked Kham.Sebastian nodded. “According to my sources, this is his residence.”Beldin took up his axe and stood to one side of the door.  Ilmarė, thinblade at the ready, stood on the other.“Let’s try knocking first,” Sebastian said with a smile.  He knocked three times. An older gentleman dressed in an old threadbare robe answered his knock. His hair was white. He was thin and taller than average. He squinted at Sebastian with cloudy eyes. “Can I help you?”“Are you Traevus val’Virdan?” asked Sebastian.“Yes, but I’m retired. I don’t do divinations anymore...You can find diviners advertising in the Lower Market…”“We aren’t here for a divination,” Sebastian said. “We have a message for you.”“A message? Come in, come in!”Sebastian led his companions inside. The old man seemed very eager to hear the message. He sat down hastily in a rocking chair. “Is it from my daughter? Would you read it to me? My eyes aren’t what they used to be…”Sebastian cleared his throat.  “I’m afraid it is not.” He opened the seal and peered at the words.  They didn’t make any sense to him. He was about to show it to Beldin when Kham snatched it out of his hands.“Interesting mix of Altharin and Dwarven. Anyway! It translates to: It is time; please join us in the Lower Market so we can right the wrong from long ago. It’s signed B and C.” There was a little more to it, but the wording was cryptic, and it was apparent the letter was some sort of personal code developed between fellows to assure the genuine nature of the message.The old man stood, apparently lost in thought, for a moment or two.  Then Travus nodded to no one in particular, as if he had come to a decision about something that he had pushed to the back of his mind for a long time.He turned around and shuffled back to the door, ushering them out. “Thank you for the message.”“Wait,” said Sebastian. “Aren’t you coming with us?”“I will meet them,” replied Traveus. “It will take me some time to get ready and go, though. And the note didn’t say anything about you coming with me.”They left, uncertain if Traveus would really show up.“Too bad it wasn’t a message from his daughter.” Kham thought of his own recently deceased father.  “I almost wish we had delivered a note from him instead.”Sebastian shook his head.  “I think not. His daughter is a Sword of Nier.”Kham swallowed hard.  “I think know her.”</blockquote>

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