What should have been a day of celebration, the day of high sun, the long day, Eve's light, was marred by a heinous murder.

Regalos, the scholar who sent Lem, Hela, and Pharaoh in search of a mysterious book was found hung from a strange

fish hook in the fields of Vealous.

Elsewhere in the city, a prison break left three guards dead and a prince missing.

And to top it off another mystical book, the one you all recovered from the ancient tower

on the Isle of Eventide was stolen from the care and protection of the great

fantasmo. In the hours that followed you were deputized by Victoria Solomon and

Dr Gloria Lake, members of the Golden Lance, a group of vigilante heroes, who are as well loved by the masses for

their ability to solve crimes as they are feared by establishments everywhere for bringing justice

down, even on the wealthy and well connected.

Your investigation led you to the bottom and middle rungs of Vealous.

You visited strange shops, chased suspects down twisted alleyways, and dealt with incompetent prison guards.

Well one of your prime suspects, Jericho alum, is a stranger to you all.

Some of you have to consider the possibility that there are other people people close to you, figuratively

and literally, that may be implicated in these crimes.

Helen Lucius, head of the religion chapter of the Church of Sammities, gave Allen counsel but to what end.

Minna, a snow elf who fled from O'Nique, confessed to breaking the ordain prisoner out of jail,

but under whose order?

How did the new archivists, from whom Jack Lem has been fleeing for months now, figure into the

story of the missing book?

And what of Gregagalos himself?

When Hadrian questioned his spirit in a holy ritual, he spoke of a strange purpose and

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