A Town of Mysteries

An extract from a letter found in Miran Cache #25:

I am sorry to hear of your loss, old friend. I have lit a red candle and a white candle in memory of her last journey.

I write to you from the town of Chayi. That is a name I have heard often around the caravan fires this past season. From the stories I expected a town of great wealth and mystery. Well, it surely has the mystery. Wealth is a more tenuous claim:  though the fields seem abundant, the region is poor in iron and they must import their metalwork.

Lately, it seems, there have been some new decorations added: the ruins outside the town have apparently yielded many trinkets, with more to be found. There is an expedition of some kind excavating the ruined tower now, for some religious purpose. I talked to one of the nuns present, and she told me privately that she thought that the site originally belonged an ancient order of Path-followers.

The local Vamto clan seems to have become prominent in the wake of these discoveries; the religious significance of these finds has put them in contact will all sorts of dignitaries and honors. Mostly Kusinne, of course–I am one of the few followers of Symness to visit.

Faithful to the Adjudicators,

Aspandhat