Ettore has exactly enough tact to not say that Hulrun probably had no idea what he was doing because he was Mendevian and had never had a class on ethics in his life.

"To execute an innocent person is an injury not only to the victim but to the Goddess, since it reduces Her ability to deal honestly," he says, which is rote but is also true, "and disobedience to Her commands. I would have expected an inquisitor to fall for sufficient negligence. If the Goddess permitted this," the Goddess was engaged in particularly extreme triage, "the situation must have been exceptionally dire." Castelloni does not like this at all.

Irabeth will dutifully attend to which things are presently understood by the Inquisition to be disobedience to the Goddess. 'executing innocent people' is a pretty appealing sounding thing to declare injurious to the Goddess but the problem is that 'being a Baphomet cultist' was also a pretty reasonable thing to declare to be disobedience to the Goddess and look how well that went. "The situation was indeed exceptionally dire," she says. "We're using truth spells before executions, now. Sir Aspex bought a dozen wands off the Church of Abadar." 

"... The Church of Abadar in Kenabres had a dozen wands of truthtelling?"

"No. After the Queen's army arrived and before the Crusade was announced Sir Aspex left for Absalom to make a great many purchases from a better supplied church of Abadar. I think he is independently wealthy but I'm sure Minagho was also in possession of some very valuable things."

There's a proper way to carry out a report but he is currently confused about fundamental things. "Is he a wizard?" Absalom was two teleports away from his fort, he remembers...

"No. He's a swordsman, heavy armor and everything. He hired a Teleport wizard, or knew one. An elf. I asked if she was joining the Crusade and he said that we should be on our best behavior just in case but he doubted he could bring her around on it."

Aspex sounds like a very unusual person. Hopefully he's a known ally of the Church of Iomedae who Ettore just doesn't know about. Hopefully he is not one of Deskari's generals under an Alter Self spell.

Ettore is not a very hopeful person.

"The combination of Detect Thoughts and Zone of Truth is normally sufficient for trials," he says, "should there be insufficient wands." People think that Abadar's truthtelling is perfect, but it's merely good. He's seen a succubus tell people their eyes were malfunctioning and the symbol was still there and have them swear later she'd passed a truthtelling.

"Other than yourself and the new Knight-Commander, who else of importance in the city's defense or governance is presently alive and in Kenabres?" He wants to know who to talk to next.

"Count Daeran Arendae is alive and in Kenabres. He does not usually involve himself very much with the city's governance or with the defense against the Worldwound but I believe since the crisis began he has been...helping. The Inquisition has in the past benefitted from the advice and assistance of the noblemen Horgus Gwerm and Orin Chetts, who have been participating in efforts to restore order and rebuild. Her Majesty is, I believe, with the Crusade right now, and will see them off before she departs Kenabres. She brought some adventurers with her who I believe will be participating in the Crusade. ...There were a few survivors among Hulrun's men. They are serving with the Eagle Watch right now while we awaited Hulrun's return or replacement."

Ettore nods. He'll need them to shadow one of his assistants. He does not trust any of them.

"I will wish to speak with the noblemen, should they have time for the inquisition," he says drily. He does not have a high opinion of Mendevian noblemen. He doubts he will be able to call on the Queen. He is second circle and she is a queen. It is not inconceivable he can speak to the Knight-Commander, though he should only do so in circumstances where Suggestion spells would not be disastrous. "Where in the city can they, Her Majesty and the Knight-Commander be found?"

... Why did Galfrey appoint anyone to run the Crusade. Galfrey ran the rest of them. Is there anyone who can get a Suggestion spell through a royal fourth-circle paladin's defenses, or was this her own decision?

The Inquisitor wanting to go talk to a bunch of people who he can't summarily execute and who aren't Irabeth is the best possible outcome of having an Inquisitor back, really. Irabeth will delightedly set him up some meetings.

"Some of us who were attending the festival fell down into the chasm. Nasty business, that, with lots of underground vermin, but I, Horgus Gwerm, and a few others made our way to a village of some underground savages and waited there for rescue. And on the second day, there came the fellow - Aspex - looking for survivors, and we were mighty pleased to see him. I offered him a very generous reward to get me to safety, but you know, it didn't escape me that he would've got us out regardless. Then the folks were able-bodied went off to help him rescue more people."

Ettore thinks it is highly suspicious that this rich person's alibi is "I was hiding underground with some illiterate savages" and not anything more plausible. How do they know he's not an Asmodean cultist?

(He doesn't detect evil. He doesn't detect anything. How, other than that, do they know.)

"I told the Prelate Hulrun, you've just got to march the whole city through a Zone of Truth. And hang all the tieflings. Then none of this would've happened. But we're on the right track now. You know the funniest thing is that we didn't even have to use all the truth spells, catching the cultists among the guard. As soon as they saw we were ready to do it, a bunch of them split and ran. I think things are under control now. It's just a shame it couldn't've happened sooner. They're sending Prelate Hulrun back, surely? The city wouldn't be standing without him."

The number of people Ettore wants to hang has certainly gone up by one as a result of this conversation.

"The Prelate Fell on the day of his death," he says, "and is expected to be reassigned following his repentance and recovery. It is of utmost importance that Iomedaean Law be enforced without violations for fear or favor. Violations of proper Lawful procedure" such as hanging all the tieflings "cannot be permitted by a Lawful organization." 

Oh, great, they've been sent one of those "but did you fill out all of the proper paperwork?" inquisitors. Chetts makes at least a polite attempt to conceal his contempt.  "We will eagerly await his return."

"An inquisitor! Why, that's precisely what this city was missing. I'm so glad the powers that be have seen free to correct the deficiency."

"The Iomedaean Inquisition intends to correct the errors Prelate Hulrun made, with the intention of remedying his deficits in proper execution of his duties," he says. He knows there is not any chance at all that this will help.

No, see, that's worse. 

"Well, if the Iomedaen Inquisition intends it, it will be so."

He wishes.

Maybe a paladin will be better?

"We were discussing whether to try to fight our way up to the surface through the maze, when the Knight-Commander came. I thought he was a paladin, at first, because he's brave and honorable and good and I've never seen him scared of anything. He said he'd take us up to the surface so we could help save the city, and then we could go back and clear the Shield Maze of cultists once Minagho'd been defeated - which was wise, I think, even though it turned out to be too late for the children. We attacked the Grey Garrison, and fought our way past the demons and the cultists to the wardstone, and then there was Minagho with - more demons than I've ever seen in my life, that's for sure, and with all the vrocks screeching you could hardly move at all. I thought we would probably all die, and then the miracle happened. They were all swallowed up in shards of ice, and then the Knight Commander stabbed Minagho straight through and that was that."