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Harrumph! I'm off to Taldor!

An older elf starts speaking.

"I joined the Pathfinder Society to follow my late brother and to find out what had happened to him. When I found he had died through the carelessness of Venture Captains and even the Decemvirate, I gravitated to the Shadow Lodge. Now I find that this, too, was a betrayal. While the Shadow Lodge has served us in making sure that the lives of Pathfinders are cast away without a care by the hierarchy, this treachery from Torch will not go unpunished.

"Where to go now? I know not, so long as it will take me within reach of Torch!"

After having heard rumours that some factions within the Pathfinder Society were in trouble, the latest breezes bring news that it is our Shadow Lodge that ails.

Perhaps we have had some effect, and the Decemvirate no longer sends Pathfinders on foolhardy missions as lightly as one might roll a die, but as Torch himself said

...the threat of slumbering Thassilonian evil has overshadowed that of the Aspis Consortium. How the Decemvirate and the Heidmarchs can so blindly throw well-trained Pathfinders at one task while so blatantly ignoring another is inexplicable and inexcusable!

The need to keep the Society true to its members is as pressing now as ever. My own brother was lost on a reckless task for the masked Ten, and I am loath to see any more give up their lives on their whim.

If that is true of the Pathfinder Society as a whole, it must be doubly true of our own organisation. If we are to keep the Society open and honest, we must first see to it that we are open and honest. We have all heard the rumours. Our leader is an information broker, so he can hardly have failed to hear it.

It is time that Torch climbed out of his bath and told us what is happening. What future for the Shadow Lodge, Grandmaster?

Apteryx, Dowager Countess Mantelli.

Roll perception?

I wonder what Torch would think...

I've heard, on the grapevine, that some of the factions we know exist in the Society are, shall we say, having difficulties in properly motivating their members. I do hope that enough people realise that someone has to keep an eye on the Decemvirate and that Grandmaster Torch's associates won't feel the need to restablish themselves outside the Society.

In the meantime, perhaps we should be extending hands of greeting to some of the factions? It's an awfully long way from Tian-Xia and I'm sure that some of the Lantern Lodge would welcome more allies around the Inner Sea.

Apteryx, Dowager Countess Mantelli.