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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5657642" data-attributes="member: 11751">The intelligence partially revealed!"I'll let you all mull it over.  Torrent can let us know where you're staying and I will pay you a visit in the morning.  You can inform me then as to your intentions and we'll move forward from there."  Kiernan looks over at the door as Simeon returns.  "Ah, here comes the headmaster.""My apologies for keeping you waiting," says Simeon as he takes a seat and places the copied pages and maps down in front of him, "but I wanted to take all precautions with my spells and I needed speak with the court mage in Shahalesti.  He was initially reluctant to respond to my sending, which I suppose is symptomatic of the political situation going on between his kingdom and us.  But I digress and you are interested in learning what these documents contain."  He spreads the information out in front of him and begins to speak. "As you may know, these are written in Infernal, in an incredibly difficult cipher which I have not yet broken.  I will in time however.  Anyway, my divinations revealed much and when I compared notes with Clathan, who holds the originals, I can confidently report the following.  These documents and maps were originally written by the Ragesian Inquisitor Kreven,  who we know to be second in command to Empress Leska.  It was read and approved of by someone who is immune to divinations, most likely Leska herself.  This information is somehow tied to the Scourge, which is Leska’s military order to capture hundreds, if not thousands of “disloyal” mages.  There is another meaning to this word as well, but it was unclear in my divinations.  I will have to revisit in time. Finally, both Kreven and the unknown person who approved of the book were concerned with legends surrounding something called “Trillith.” I have never heard of the name before now.  I would like to hold onto this information if you don't mind.  I need to focus on breaking the cipher and sorting out what exactly is being discussed within the pages and how they relate to these associated maps and architectural drawings.""Please do," says Torrent, "we brought it here so that it might help the war effort.  We all look forward to you decrypting the cipher and gleaning additional secrets." </blockquote>

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