Raven blushes at the compliment. She's still not used to being back in the favor of her house.
"This man, Orerreth, seems trustworthy. He claims to have been involved with making weapons in Cyre. Terrible weapons, like the ones responsible for the Day of Mourning. But he says he was a double agent for Breeland. Says he wrote down some of the secrets of these weapons on a crystle and had it delivered to Basher, the warforged, who was also an agent of Breland. So far, it makes sense. But then it gets tricky."
"Basher is killed. Evidently burried in a shallow grave. Later someone digs him up, and brings his body back to Sharn, where it is laid to rest. But where's the crystal? According to Orerreth, he somehow found out that a certain warforged scout had burried him, and taken the crystal. He says he did this through his contacts at House Cannith. These contacts also supposedly found the adventurers who had brought Basher's body back to Sharn. They read these adventurers' minds, and determined that they knew nothing about the crystal. Orerreth then somehow convinced this scout back in the Mournlands to send him the crystal's location. This was the letter the gnome read, which resulted in the fracas at Basher's funeral."
"The fact is, it just doesn't really add up. Orerreth says he still has contacts in House Cannith, yet he also says he was discovered as a spy in Cyre before its destructions, so it seems likely that House Cannith knows he betrayed them. Also, who is this scout that sends this information to him by mail? How can he be trusted? Perhaps Orerreth is being led astray by his contacts at House Cannith. Perhaps the adventurers who found the body did actually take the crystal."
"So you see, I believe Orerreth that this crystal is out there, and contains some very valuable information. Information that should be kept out of enemy hands. Yet I can't indepenendly track the crystal's location. I have to rely on Orerreth, who could well be an unknowing pawn of other forces."
Raven leans forward. "This could be a coup for House Orien to get this crystal. But we would somehow need to track down this warforged scout, the adventurers, or both. Of course it's possible that neither of these actually exists, and Orerreth is misleading us, probably unintentionally. Do you think House Orien could find out anything more about this mystery?"
