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From the Expedition of 1836

17th Thermador, 1836: According to this letter from Hyronomous, the dig at Chayi has revealed evidence of smoke, seeming to point towards a large fire damaging the center of the ruined compound and possibly leading to its eventual abandonment.

Beneath the soot, there are engravings that resemble Kusinne religious tattoos: geometric-numeric designs with meanings encoded numerically into their symmetric designs.

They have also found several dead ends apparently intended to mislead looters. Curiously, they appear to date to much later than the original ruins. Possibly second century, according to Hyronomous.

The Aksu Letters

An except from a document found at Aksu:

…preparations are underway for the construction of a permanent edifice for the academy. Royal support has ensured that the project has favorable winds.

There have been persistent rumors that religiously motivated assassins are operating in Kucha, targeting public spaces and institutions of Kusinne…

Letters from Aksu

An excerpt from a letter by a citizen of Aksu:

…the city’s forges have been quieter of late. I have been told that this is because the mines have run short of laborers, even though they were booming just a few seasons ago. It has been whispered that Eonic workers are avoiding the mines entirely.

I, on the other hand, am fully occupied. Thanks to an introduction from the Queen, I have been engaged at the academy that has recently been established in Aksu. I have been working closely with Mandal Ashkashwar and find that many of my students are gratifyingly eager to learn…

Turmoil in the Courts of Kucha

From the Annals of the Oasis Kingdoms:

At that time the court in Kucina was disrupted by the sudden uncovering of dissidents in their midst. Acting on advice from trusted advisors, the Queen took advantage of her seclusion to allow her agents to ferret out adversaries among her own courtiers.

Lost and Found

Excerpt from a letter from Chayi:

With the Withering Season upon us, the laborers in the villages have left their fallow field and have taken up their other pursuits. Many seem to have occupied themselves with exploring the ruined tower and the surrounding environment. Not all of them: today I saw a blind girl, a daughter of one of the local clans, apparently. They seem to keep her sheltered in the village.

I have heard rumors that someone has found a dagger with a black opal in the hilt that sounds very similar to one that the heretic Adjudicators used during the time of Devastations. But many strange things are being found nowadays: there are many ingots recovered from the ruins, of some unknown metal that seems to react strangely to lodestones. Perhaps I will be able to tell you more of this when I see you next.

Faithful to the Adjudicators,

Aspandhat

From the Expedition of 1836

15th Thermador, 1836: This has been a day of a great many discoveries!

Behind a wall in what I believe to be a salt cellar, we found a sealed chamber with a great many jars, each one containing what appears to be a sacred text. And not only that: some contained much more mundane records. One of them, for example, appears to be some kind of social register: the last entry announces the betrothal of an apprentice initiate of the order named Sugnumae to a nobleman. This must have happened shortly before the records were copied and sealed away. Another document makes mention of the Abbey being unexpectedly closed to visitors that season. Perhaps there is some connection there as to why the texts were sealed away.

 

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

In the Court of Kucha

From the Annals of the Oasis Kingdoms:

That year, Queen Shayn was often observed to be unwell and absent from the court. This did not go unremarked among the nobility, and many speculated that poison had affected her health severely, the same way her mother had been brought down.

The Frogs of Iron

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

A great many small metal frogs have been spotted in Kucha, all of them pointing towards the capital. According to rumor, they are connected with Symness and secret meetings. There are mutterings in the streets about unholy rulers and of some kind of connection with the recently excavated tower…