<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><em>Best beloved, I here present you a written chronicle of events in and around Silkshore, in Doskvol, from the spring of 487 onwards.  While this is hardly the most complete of all histories, as that was the year of the riots, also of the war in Crow's Foot due to the ambition of one woman, it is an accounting of a certain group known to you from your private studies.  Where necessary your humble scribe has changed names to avoid any additional or untoward actions being taken against those who yet draw breath.  Out of respect for those who did not survive, scholastic integrity demands that the remainder be told as accurately as my awareness of events permits.<br/><br/>Thus and so, here is a history of the group known as the Dawn Syndicate.</em></span><br/><br/>= = = = =<br/><br/><strong>Fogcrest, Silkshore</strong><br/><br/>Fogcrest is a maze of steep stairs and tight alleyways, seeming to have more of either than actual streets between the tall, narrow stone, brick, and wood rowhouses that are crammed into almost every possible foot of space on this hilltop. Cafes, teahouses, bookshops are plentiful, as are discrete shops selling stronger pleasures.  While not as overtly hedonistic as the Ease, it would be a profound error to assume that drug dens and brothels were not to be found here.<br/><br/>As are those who, for whatever reason, wish to hide themselves away without risking the sort of squalor that would be involved in Charhallow or Coalridge, or the risk to life in limb by finding shelter in Crow's Foot.  For fugitives, this is a somewhat safer place to go to ground.  And so it is with your current target...a book-thief, hiding from the proctors of Charterhall University.  Or at least that's what your contact told you when you were asked to take care of this matter.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Questions Needing Answers</div><div class="spoiler_body">Who among you got the initial contact about this?  Who was it--your group contact?  A personal one?<br/><br/>What have you seen that makes you think there's more to this?<br/><br/>What plan do you have to take care of this matter?</div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>