Elemental Movements

[Anastasia]

A nod to that, "Is there anything else to add to this? If he is serving the Serpent Throne, he can lament his foolishness in prison for all time. Anything that can lead to that is helpful."

[Nephrite]

Moore shakes his head. "No, only that he apparently delivered it in person to Grias here. Though, perhaps that, in itself, is significant. I would think a spawn of a demon lord would have difficulty coming through here unnoticed, even if he was in disguise. Hm... Grias, where did you meet him? Perhaps I can see if I can notice anything significant to add to this testimony."

[Anastasia]

"Right around here," Grias says, "He didn't come in."

[Nephrite]

"Interesting." Moore says. He stands up and walks over before he looks to the past -- let's see if there's anything there at all!

I'm going to assume there's some sort of mind blanking going on, but he's going to try Hindsight anyway. If... that even works here...

[Anastasia]

It does. You don't see him - almost certainly a sign of mind blank or similar, powerful magics.

[Nephrite]

Moore nods.

"He was protected by something along the lines of mind blank." Moore reports to the others. "Whether that tells us anything extra, I cannot say -- if Sanez is not the type to usually command strong magic, then it may indicate more deception."

[Anastasia]

Sanez, not Sarez.

"Or simply prudent defensive magic if you're that powerful," Cresiel remarks, glancing over at Sunstone.

Sunstone catches that look, "You're right, it's hardly proof," he agrees. "Circumstantial at best."

[Nephrite]

Whoops, I'll fix it.

"I agree." Moore says. "I'll leave the matter to Brightwater to investigate, but if there's anything you require from us, we'll be happy to help in any way we can."

[Anastasia]

"You'll hear back within a day," Sunstone agrees, turning to go.

Anything else to add here?

[Nephrite]

"Thank you." Moore says.

Nope, not at present.

[Anastasia]

Doing anything while waiting for word from him?

[Nephrite]

Let's go through a few of the efreet books. Moore's still got magic book-reading powers, so he should be able to go through a good mass of them.

[Anastasia]

Cool. Refresh me on what you're looking for with them?

[Nephrite]

Hmm... lore regarding lost locations, or supposed places that might have fabled arms and armor. Maybe potent/lost magic, as well.

Was it just a regular library? I mean, that's something else he'd look at too -- if a lot of the books are just informational or what.

He'll also pay attention to any books written recently to see if there's new information in any of them that was not known previously. Perhaps related to slavery and connections the college may have had to those holdings.

[Anastasia]

A lot of it is lore you've seen before or in different forms, but hardly all. Some of the books are efreet exclusive, oddities of the fey world or more esoteric yet.

By chance, the first book on lost magic is Medicant. The story's about right in broad strokes and it doesn't tell you anything you don't know. It does mention a ghostly guardian but calls her Elleny instead of Elena.

As you chuckle over that, a message. 'Sanez left Brightwater several days ago. He serves as a general problem solver, adventurer and messenger. He has not returned since then and scrying is blocked.'