Queen Mab
There is some to tell you, we have made progress in discovering the root of the issues concerning the shade temple. Two nights ago, Simeon communed with the Moonweaver whispering to the twilight. He brought some troubling auguries, firstly that Kenji the Blind is not in charge of the temple which caused some distress to Sabali, and secondly the orders that led to Sabali’s attempted assassination on Lord Percy came from ‘many mouths’, which is less clear, but the indication that the authority of the Shade Temple is certainly not it once was.
We scouted using Zeni’s magick, and that showed us that the temple was still inhabited by monks, and proceeded then in disguise as group of pilgrims looking to visit the shrine to Feng Li. We were met by a drow named Vitalius, who identified himself has the head of the temple, and told another version of the legend surround Feng Li, this one was of him being a consort to Mother Winter before the ascension. Sabali & Simeon used this distraction to invisibly investigate the deeper reaches of the temple and establish more information and possibly look for Kenji. Barring some disruption, they were successful in locating Kenji, who had been severely beaten and tortured over the months, and was then smuggled out of the temple to the rest of the Unbroken.
We escaped to our camp and established some of the potted history, Kenji had been overthrown by Vitalius, who was aided by ‘shadows’, though he made it clear that Vitalius was not the ultimately authority there. This means that all orders that have come from the temple the past months have been in service of something else than Feng Li’s teachings.
We have concluded to address the situation tomorrow after we rest, then we remove the threat.