#4 – cutscene – Carandini

Through the streaming rain, and into the dark autumn night Carandini made his exit from the coaching inn. In his possession the tomes that he had ordered Meltar to retrieve for him from the Tymora church in Arabel to pay his debt to Carandini.

Carandini – Necromancer – Known agent of the Zhentarim.

The scripture of Zhengyi was missing – nowhere to be found, but Carandini was sure that it would appear again at some point – it always did, and with the hand of L’kah he could divine where it was and pick his time to recover it if necessary. He had a feeling that the young female arcane trickster would be the key to his reunion with Zhengyi’s scripture and then with Man Thul – his key to Zhentil Keep.

#3 – recap – Chainspire prison

Last episode…

The heroes are on their way to Arabel, recruited by a senior Lather priest called Peder Haussner, who has a reputation as being a hardcore fanatic, and a very efficient undead hunter.
Haussner has ordered Hamron’s adventurers to handle a “minor problem”. In exchange for their services he will perform a minor miracle and raise their friend Haverly from an untimely death.

It turns out that Haussner is part of the leadership of a small concentration camp, where a number of powerful (both political and magical) Netheril nobles and influencers are held captured until their more permanent prison is ready for them to move in to.

The problem is that the restoration of the Chainspire Prison has ground to a halt after some workers went missing, and the search team that went to find them is now also missing.
Haussner of course suspects foul play and undeads, and this leads to the obvious idea of letting someone from his church solve the problem and save the day.

The head of the concentration camp is a Purple Dragon Captain – Ivan “the Bull” of Suzail. He represents both the army and the judicial system. The political is represented by Will Dracohorn, who is you noble who has personally sponsored a part of the endeavor, and has supplied a number of the troops that guard the camp. The troops are mercenaries from Sembia!