Larisa begins opening up the letters and reading them. "Here's a letter sent from Maeger Varn to Maestro Penrod - about two months ago. The letter describes discovery by one of Varn's lieutenants of a jade “bracelet” on the banks of a “river of local provenance” and requests Pendrod’s presence for further study of the artifact."
She then opens up the book that the spriggan was holding. After scanning the pages for a couple of minutes, she points to a passage of underlined text and begins to read out loud. "And so it was, high upon the Torres and well above the Vale’s Stairs, where rises from the high water a stony isle of dire report. Known as Vordakai’s Island to those that do live thereabout, some legend of its name doth come down through the locals. For they speak of a guardian that doth destroy all who would set foot upon its accursed shores. They did name no fewer than a twelve count of their hero-knights who had left their bones upon its rocky shores over the years after having tested their mettle against its dread warden, ’til none would any longer go there for fear of its hidden terrors. And the name of this terror was given unto this Island."
She then begins reading through the books scattered on the floor. "This one is a a centuries-old geography book created by one Carmyn e’Brothasa, a chronicler of Taldor’s Third Army of Exploration into the north. One passage is marked by Maestro Pendrod and is reproduced nearby in his notes. It looks like Pendrod’s own handwriting in the margin of the text. He leaves a strange note: 'Vordakai—perhaps a Nomen centaur god?'"
