"The relic was among others on display for pilgrims and visitors alike for view purposes only. My fellow clerics and I did a full investigation about the matter here within the temple and found one suspect who's being detained on the temple grounds in the guard post." His brow furrowed with contempt, "a turncoat."

"Even I questioned this individual. Shady and downright despicable that he would do such a thing by stealing the relic and trying to make some coin. Needless to say, the man in question will be doing hard penance for this crime!" Madeous grumbled with hands on his hips. "Perhaps, you and your friends may find out something that Lazheros and I did not."

"Oh, I think we can persuade him to talk," Irzen turned towards his friends, "Right guys?"

Willow, Neven and Serna grinned and nodded in response.

The Bronze Man told the adventurers where to find the guard post on the temple grounds by following the main path and taking a left to the sparing area for the knights and paladins. "If they ask, tell them I sent you."

"Consider it done!" Irzen led the others out of the temple, "Gang, we have a mystery to solve and a traitor to interrogate. Let's see what we can learn."

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"Right. All set. Follow me please," Sergeant Talos spoke up once more and gestured for the party to join him. "Strange lot you all are but if it solves the mystery and restores the relic, I know I will rest easier."

"Well do our best," Irzen reassured Talos.

"Fortunately for you, our best is pretty good!" Serna chirped with a smile.

The sergeant lead the party down the main path and to the left as the cleric instructed. At the entrance, they were greeted by the Knight Commander. A tall human man, medium build in full plate armor, "Halt! What business do you have here?"

"We were sent here by your chief priest, Lazheros, to interrogate the prisoner," Irzen declared, "Please, bid us to enter."

"That's Grand Cleric to you, drow." The Knight Commander glared at the swordsman and motioned his guards to let the party pass. "You may enter to question the accused."

Sergeant Talos told Irzen that the knight commander lost his family to a drow invasion when he was a kid. They enslaved his family and friends and the rest were sacrificed to their spider goddess. "That's why he doesn't like drow in general, no offense."

The jail as it were was a simple holding cell with the suspect sitting on a hard stone bench chained by the wrists to the wall behind him. He looked like an acolyte who was in training but was tempted by greed and false promises. The young man had shoulder length dusty blond hair pulled back into a pony tail, brown eyes, wearing blue monks robes. He leaned forward eyeing the party as they entered. "Have you come to bail me out, or to question me like that so called King of the Great Veil?"