Venture-Captain Amara Li has been expanding a collection of storied Tien relics, with the aim of creating several museums open to the public across Tian Xia. Her first such museum is near the Lantern Lodge in Goka, where she typically conducts operations. Recently, she has been spending much of her time in Minkai. She hopes to capitalize upon Minkai’s increasing openness to faraway nations to set the foundations for a Pathfinder lodge. She plans to use a museum as a way to gather interest and support for the Pathfinder Society, and she has put out a call to Pathfinders from across the world to help her in this new endeavor. These Pathfinders have been making connections, helping with archival work, and working as guards to ensure that the relics that Venture-Captain Li purchases or receives as donations safely make it to the museum.
But even with guards, not every relic reaches its destination safely. A collector from Taldor recently donated her collection of artifacts from Tian Xia to Amara Li’s cause, and Li hired out space on a series of caravans to make the long journey north through the continent of Avistan, across the frozen Crown of the World, down through the steppes of Hongal. She sent Pathfinders up to the Hongal to accompany the caravan for the last stage of its journey, through the Forest of Spirits to Minkai.
Amara Li understands that the journey is lengthy, but she has become increasingly concerned. The letters and reports she received from these Pathfinder agents indicate that they made it to the Forest of Spirits, but she has heard nothing from them since. All evidence indicates that the caravan disappeared somewhere in the Forest of Spirits. While this supernatural coniferous wood can be perilous to those who disrespect the mystical forces within it, particularly the guardians of nature known as kami, those who stay close to the road rarely encounter trouble.
