Captain's Log. 21st of Hematite.
Ostri is back, along with the Caravan he represents, of course.
As the only competent liaison between our peoples, he has been, for the last couple of years, been attempting to gather more information regarding the death of his two guards in our Galleria.
While we know that this was a ritualistic killing, we had no idea of the cause. If the priestess knew, the knowledge is gone with her.
I can't help but attribute some of this to the Baron, Baroness, and the new Hammerer. They seem, however, to be fairly small, as a group, in the Fortress, and do not wield that much power over the populace.
So the question remains as to who they could possibly be working with, if it is indeed them, and what their aims are.
Ostri has helped, perhaps, to shed some light on this. He has looked into the dealings of his guards immediately prior to their departure from their home, and has turned up some clues.
Evidently, they were sourced by somebody to pick up a dark tome, from the Goblins no less! Apparently the trade had very little murder all around, and the tome got here unhindered. This is likely the reason for the death of the guards. If there were some sort of unholy ritual, it would be in addition to simply murdering them so they couldn't talk.
Ostri hasn't been able to get too many details of what the tome was about, but he did know the word Unoleshtần.
Meaningless to him, no doubt, but in Dwarven it means Soulsmith.
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