Difficult Questions
Story Emits
Details are scarce coming out of the Pravus Estate, but word quickly spreads that Master of Questions Shreve Tyde is dead, along with a dozen others, mostly confessors of the Inquisition.
It was a clear day, but storms often blow in over Arx from the Bay of Thrax, and today is one of those days. As an unusually large detachment of the Iron Guard moves to Sovereign Bridge and takes up a defensive formation facing the Palace, a squall is taking over the city, bringing powerful summer rains.
At Sovereign Bridge, the squall suddenly becomes overpowering, and the winds become so powerful that several iron guardsmen are thrown off their feet and over the side of the bridge, screaming to their deaths. Guardsman Merek orders the guards to the ends to safety. At the Palace, the storm strangely looks more intense with a blinding rainstorm, and is so dark that even during in day it's hard to make out what's going on near the palace entrance.
In the confusion of the unusual storm raging in Arx, there are those who swear they took shelter from the driving wind and rain in the residential district of the upper boroughs, near a modest home behind a gate. The air there was calm, shockingly so, no rain cutting in sideways at those caught outside; no branches and debris blowing madly about. It is, they said, as if there was a little pocket of serene summer day tucked away there -- though the house sat quiet.
The storm leaves as quickly as it came. Just an odd, very powerful squall, as often happens coming out of the Bay of Thrax, though the loss of several men being swept from the Sovereign Bridge was an unsual freak accident to be sure. Word at the palace quickly spreads that there was an armed clash, where apparently disgruntled inquisitors loyal to Shreve attempted to apprehend the Lord Commander of the King's Own for treason in some insidious plot to kidnap the ill king, trying to take King Alaric Grayson IV hostage. They were cut down to a man by the King's Own and other guardsmen, and tragically some loyal inquisitors such as the brave, young Narciso Artiglio died in the fighting in the defense of his majesty. Strange, wild stories of demons are, of course, seen as ridiculous hyperbole by most, and do not detract from the heroism of the men that died.