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of all the people who Queen Galfrey could have appointed as Knight-Commander this is sure one of them
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...Is the dragon also a teenager, or whatever the equivalent is for dragons?

Maybe Elysians are just like that. 

"I have no objections to you taking additional security precautions. If confidentiality is a concern, we're also willing to redact public records of the interview upon request, though of course it's perfectly reasonable to omit secrets of military relevance regardless."

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Then he can go through the extra security designed to make sure he's not going to assassinate the Knight-Commander once they're alone together! 

Compared to Lastwall's procedures, they seem unusually worried about ensuring that he isn't, specifically, a Chelish agent. Lastwall takes precautions against Chelish espionage, but in general considers Cheliax trustworthy in the limited sense that it won't literally try to assassinate Lastwall's forces at the Worldwound.


 

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"So, what did you want to know?"

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"I was hoping to begin by establishing a timeline and very broad overview of events. My current understanding is that there was a miracle in Kenabres, attributed to Iomedae, involving a large flash of light and some form of empowerment against a group of powerful demons, and a second miracle during... the siege of Drezen?... attributed to Desna and involving illusory butterflies and a dragon. Is that accurate?"

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"...sort of? Uh, did you skip over the last one on purpose or by accident?" 

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"I wasn't aware of an additional miracle following the, ah, butterflies."

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"Okay, so, after the butterfly miracle, which was also after we hung up the Sword of Valor — not actually a sword, I'm not sure how much you know about it — anyways, after that, we went after Minagho and Staunton Vhane." (She is not remotely trying to hide how much she hates either of them.) "And Nurah, but we didn't know Nurah was going to be there. Anyways, I prayed to Calistria before the battle, not even asking her for help, just letting her know what we were up to, and she sent... some sort of magic wasps?... that were buzzing around us like a shield, and also helping sting them whenever we got a hit in."

It was really cool. She's pretty sure even the Mendevians who like Calistrians are a little freaked out by wasp-based miracles but still. It's not like she sent divine locusts or anything!

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...He has a new hypothesis for what the Goddess and Queen Galfrey are aiming for. If they've gotten Calistria to redirect a significant portion of her budget from "promoting extrajudicial murder" to "supporting the Fifth Crusade", that could plausibly be a worthwhile trade, or at least he isn't confident that it's not.

"Apart from that, was the broad overview accurate?"

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"...mostly? It's missing a lot of the important parts but I don't think any of it was actually wrong, and I think maybe that's part of what you wanted to cover?"

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He nods and turns to another page of notes.

"Can you summarize the events on the day of the purported miracle at Kenabres, prior to the miracle itself?"

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"Alright. It's been a few weeks, so I might not perfectly remember everything, but... so, we were trying to take back the Grey Garrison, because that's where the Wardstone was, and we knew they had some sort of plan to use the Wardstone to explode all the Wardstones in the whole Worldwound. So we'd gotten a whole bunch of people together, and... I'm not sure how much detail you want..."

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"What circle were you at the time? Do you remember what spells you prepared on the day of the attack? What about your companions who were with you when the purported miracle occurred?"

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"I was third, I'd just hit third a couple days earlier. And Nenio was also third, she's a wizard, and Woljif was second, he's a wizard too, and Ember was also second, she's some kind of weird sorcerer. And Lann was still first, he's also a cleric, but he hadn't even been picked as a cleric until a few days before it happened, and Seelah had paladin firsts. Also a horse, she said the horse is usually later. I don't remember most of the spells I prepared but I'm pretty sure I had a bunch of Blesses, and I definitely had at least one communal Resist Fire because otherwise we'd've been in real trouble when the brimoraks showed up, and I must have had some way to cast Protection from Evil but I might've been doing it all with seconds so it could be communal. And then I think I also had a communal Delay Poison, for the dretches, unless that one was from a scroll. And for my domain spells I had True Strike and Aid and Dispel Magic. And Woljif and Nenio both had some Greases and some Webs. Apart from that I don't remember for sure — oh, Ember's got some sort of cantrip version of Sleep that only works on one person each time she casts it, that's most of what she was casting."

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"Were there any spells that you recall wishing you had access to during the fighting at the Grey Garrison, prior to the fight during which the miracle occurred?"

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"...well, more Communal Resist Fire spells would've been nice. More healing would've been nice, we bought all the Cure Light Wounds scrolls Fiducia Rathimus had but we'd spent a bunch of them already by that point. If we could've had Bless up the whole time that would've been helpful but there was never a point where we really desperately needed it, I think we even had some extra scrolls of it that we didn't use. There's more things that could've been helpful if we were higher-circle... I guess if we didn't have to worry about spell slots at all we could've all spent the whole time invisible, except some of the demons there could see invisible people... oh, we had Haste up the whole time, apparently there's a ritual for it, except it was powered from some of the energy the Wardstone was leaking so we could only use it that one time, but we didn't have a great way to keep time and there were a couple points where I was worried we'd run out. Oh, and Dimension Door could've been helpful if we'd had it, for getting to the Wardstone faster, but I'm not sure how much time it would've actually saved. I don't think we were really close to fourth-circle though, none of us had fourths the next day and we fought a lot of people. And there were lots of crusaders who died, it would've been nice to be able to raise them all, but we definitely couldn't have afforded Breath of Life scrolls even if Fiducia Rathimus had had them, let alone Raise Dead." Technically she could have raised exactly one of them, but she was saving Terendelev's second scale for an emergency.

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"...Were you and your companions the highest-circle adventurers taking part in the attack on the Grey Garrison?"

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"I think Ramien might've technically had fourths? But he and the other Desnans were putting all their magic into some sort of ritual to put some of the demons to sleep. I don't think anyone else had more than thirds, but there were some other people at third."

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...So, allegedly, they had intelligence suggesting that the demons in Kenabres were planning to destroy the Wardstone line and their solution to this involved a third-circle adventuring party. He has a feeling that this is going to be a long incident report.

"When did decision-makers in Kenabres become aware of the purported threat to the integrity of the Wardstone line?"

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Decision-makers? Doesn't everyone make decisions? Maybe that makes more sense in whatever he's speaking, she's pretty sure it's some kind of Taldane but not one of the ones she's used to, and her bracers do something like a Tongues but everyone knows that's not perfect.

"I don't know when exactly different people found out about it. Uh, in my case, I'd just gotten back to Kenabres — I fell in a big hole after Deskari attacked, and it took me a couple days to get out — anyways. I'd just gotten back to Kenabres, and the exit out from the hole put us in the Grey Garrison, and we met up with Irabeth and a bunch of people who work for her to try to clear it out. And then we ran into Minagho, and Minagho... gave us a whole speech about her plan, for some reason... and told us that she was going to keep us alive rather than just killing us right there so that she could see us crawling around the ruins of Kenabres being miserable about not being about to stop her, and then knocked us all unconscious. I know for sure me and Irabeth and Seelah and Lann and Camellia were there, and a bunch of other people that work for Irabeth were also there but I don't know all their names. And then I'm pretty sure Irabeth told the other people who were in charge of things in Kenabres, and I told the people I was recruiting for my adventuring party, and I think by the end of the next day pretty much everyone who wasn't hiding in a basement or something had heard? And I assume Irabeth had some way of checking that she wasn't just making things up to scare us but I don't know exactly how, but I also ran into some Desnans and this really old elf who also had a sense of what was wrong."

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"When was this, relative to the eventual assault on the Grey Garrison?"

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"A few days before? I don't remember exactly how many, sorry. More than two but less than a whole week."

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"Do you know why the decision was made to rely on forces local to Kenabres rather than requesting outside aid?"

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"...I think people tried? And it's just that no one else showed up who wasn't already near Kenabres."

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He is really very confident that Lastwall would have sent a strike team for a situation of that severity. Strike teams are expensive, but that's not an insurmountable barrier! They were certainly busy in the aftermath of the attacks throughout the Wardstone line, but 'reduce forces in one area of the Wardstone line, thereby resulting in more people in that area dying, to stop everyone in all the areas of the Wardstone line from dying' is not a particularly complicated trade-off to make, and while their failure to make it did not in fact get everyone killed he should be assuming that it had or will have some sort of catastrophic consequence, possibly on another world, unless they were really astonishingly lucky in terms of the cost of the Goddess's intervention.

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She can tell he's confident in that! Unfortunately she has to worry about not causing an international incident!!

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