Myr's Sword (Surraruthru)

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru returns to the Sage to discuss his findings.

"Basically, any of the higher end yugoloths seem to fit the target, outside of Oinoloth and The Adversary. The General of Gehenna seems like a solid choice, but I can't find anything to go off of on him or any others. Do we have any allies that are specialists in yugoloth information?"

[Anastasia]

"One in the same," Sage Vul'lath clarifies, "The new Oinoloth IS the Adversary. Oinoloth is a title, a position to hold by taking the Siege Malicious. The Adversary is a powerful daemon who recently rose to take it. But irrelevant," Waving it aside, "Of all the fiends, the hardest to find information about are the yugoloths. It requires persistent measures. Still, I know of one who tries to study the fiends of the Nadir."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Oh? Who, and how do I gain his help?"

[Anastasia]

"His name is Machos, a titan who wanders the planes. A warrior-sage who studies the 'loths, as he finds them to be the greatest threat of the fiends. A sending is usually sufficient to find him, but his aid is not easily obtained." Vul'lath says.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Any suggestions on what I should prepare to gain his aid?"

[Anastasia]

"Knowledge. He values strange and unusual knowledge of all kinds, but not equally. One must come prepared and barter."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hmm... What knowledge would be equal to that of the greater yugoloths... What we know about the Duke of Destiny and his  son? What happened at Gehenna with the rift?"

[Anastasia]

"Those may be good," Sage Vul'lath says, "But the Duke of Destiny's son?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Ah, I meant Asmodeus'. Bah. You Aurora people have so many enemies, it's hard to keep track of sometimes. How much should I reveal to him? What should I hold back for just us?"

[Anastasia]

"Anything that shouldn't be known outside of the Crusade. Public actions and dealings are fine, private ones are not." Sage Vul'lath hms, "You may want to ask a General about any particular bits of information."

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru nods.

"Thank you for your help. Anything else before I hunt down one of the Generals?"

[Anastasia]

"The more you know, the better. Think of it like currency," Sage Vul'lath taps a nearby book. "Be rich enough to afford it."

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru nods and flies off, looking for a General to get clarification from. He'll likely return to the library for more information after he finds out what the operational knowledge boundaries are.

[Anastasia]

You find Adrian after some looking. He's in a meeting room by himself, piles of papers around him. Looking up with tired eyes, "Surraruthru, what is it?" He pushes aside another sheet and goes to the next, reading it before signing it.

[Iron Dragoon]

"I'm searching for the Sword of Myr for Seira. It seems to be an intelligent weapon that focuses on banishing lies and illusions, and specializes in fighting fiends and daemons. Between myself and Sage Vul'lath, we've figured out that it's on the run from something, and has been for a long time. It appears when there's a significant fight against fiends or daemons, so I'm guess it's looking for a worthy wielder, or for someone that can use its power to protect it from whatever's chasing it.

In order to find a likely place for it to appear next, or to engineer a situation to get it to appear, I'm going to have to trade information with the titan Machos. He deals in knowledge, so we suspect trading information about the Duke of Destiny, Lixer, Asmodeus, and some of the bases we've found would be fair trade for him. I need to know what not to reveal to him, however."