The impostor's face showed neither apparent recognition nor lack thereof from the map with the spell radius or Kass's mention of the witnessed apocalyptic spell and the dispatched monsters.<br/><br/>She thought for a moment and smiled. "Luckily for you I would be most happy to tell you the following, particularly as your rather busy day suggests you're apt at getting around: go you across the Moonsea to Suzail, capital of fair Cormyr, and make sure the Crown gets this message: if a ransom of two million gold is not given, their city of Arabel shall experience a fate much like you witnessed today. Indeed your witnessing renders you the ideal messengers for such a fantastic message! If you fail to convince them to pay, well...Arabel's leveling will surely prove convincing enough, and then it shall be Suzail held for the same ransom. The details and deadlines of how the Crown might transfer payment will be made known to them by other messengers."<br/><br/>"As for where you can find the workers of such magic and your precious phallic relic.." she seemed to look over Kass for a moment and into her eyes, thoughtfully, "I suppose I shall tell you. Not because I think you would know forthwith if I lied, but because I suspect 'twould not be 'til after you verified such information by finding what you seek that I might be released. While captured I can little hope for a slice of the ransom, and thus my loyalty to the plot is rather lacking at the moment."<br/><br/>"They seek to gather another relic like your statue. Luthcheq is a city-state within Chessenta, a nation - well, a<em>region</em>of several would-be nation-states - past Unther to the west. That mad city shuns magic, and the Olympic war-god Ares is much in favor there. The temple of Ares holds and guards some shield of an ancient hero. In the dead hours before the morrow's dawn we - they - shall steal it."<br/><br/>Aria gave Kass a glance and a shrug to indicate that, like Kass herself would, the tiefling didn't discern any cues of deception from the impostor's face or voice or body language.