190th Day of Year 1324

Season of the Scion

Entry: On My Parents

Today, I arrived home after a long day at work. It was brutal. Not only did I have a policy meeting, with a few other Senators, but I also had to attend to office hours at White Aegis. This is a critical time for the guild. We are just beginning to take on new members, and come back to our former strength. Yet, with all of this news, I digress.

I arrived home to see my butler, and long-time friend, Zachariah awaiting me, with a letter in his hand. Someone had dropped it off for me, and said it was important for it to reach my hands only. Upon opening the letter, I found half of an amulet, and a note with an inscription. Honestly, the piece of the amulet alone was enough to make my heart stop. There was only half, because I had the other half.

The amulet is an heirloom, in my family. However, with the fire, so long ago, in the Eastern Commons, much of my family's history, and even my family itself, was destroyed. Suffice it to say, I was taken by surprise.

I read the note, and it told me to meet the messenger of the letter in the palace gardens of Divinity's Reach. Despite my excitement to meet the person that held a piece of my family's history, it had been years since I had last even thought of investigating the cause of the fire. This seemed to have come up at too inconvenient a time, to be perfectly kosher. I contacted Terradrim, who was more than willing to accompany me on this venture.

And was I lucky he came! It turned out that the "informant", that was to give me information on my family, was an assassin, of sorts. Not just any type of assassin either. Somehow, he managed to clear out the gardens, and replace the regulars with other veiled assassins. Before long, Terradrim and I found ourselves in a little bit of a predicament.

Fortunately for us, two people came to help. These two were Exemplar Salia, and Exemplar Melid. They are of the Shining Blades. They informed us of our attackers. Apparently, the White Mantle are all but dead. This news could not have come at a worse time, but it does help to explain some of the rise in Bandit activity.

Terradrim decided more patrols needed to be trained and set out. I have begun the preliminaries of finding out as much information on the whereabouts of the White Mantle. Tsorovan has lent me his services again. Honestly, I do not know what I would do without that man!

~Kaelis Ra