Sapphire:Sessions:20160924

Of the eight people that attacked our group, the purple-clad woman, two of the fighters, and a crossbowman are left alive. Sung recognizes the male mage, though she doesn't know his name; he wore a signet ring from the Mallow Bay mage guild.

Chalker resets the woman's jaw. She gives her name, Sybonne. She is originally from Siliban, a small market city on the Isle of Myretrus, though she has not been there in some fifteen years. In Mallow Bay she is the Proctor at a school for the "gifted" (mages). She specializes in Divination. "It takes effort to search the future." No one hired her; she simply wants the artifacts. "Viewing them triggered visions for me... They are a window to information... potential anchor points."

Chalker: "Tell you what -- I don't kill you now, and you owe each of us a favor." Invoking Solash, Sybonne swears a binding oath to that effect. She knows that there are thirteen artifacts, one of them destroyed. She has had visions of a man searching for them. Chalker checks her aura: Greedy; intense; "brushes" with dark forces and with Roo; not a good person.

Ahn-Lee suggests to Chalker to have Sybonne tell them more about his artifact, the green sword. She says it is "a doorway to a world where things are dumped," a power focus, and that "with the right ritual one could draw power to travel to different worlds."

Chalker has Ahn-Lee put Sybonne to sleep with a drugged needle. Sung carries Sybonne through the portal back to the Dolyenan Embassy. Chalker instructs Jeeves to keep Sybonne under guard.