(2024-10-24) The Red String Game

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Author:	inkie
Summary:	Siamus Fallon tries to keep track of his various open questions regarding the situation between Count Amerith and… like, everyone. A lot of people. Just constantly more people.
Rating:	T for Teen

Arc: The Red String Game

COUNT LESTER AMERITH
House of Nobles. No family; arranged marriage, childless, wife and parents lost in the fall of Stormwind. Noted eccentric.

• Connected somehow to the Mondragon affair, and thence to Morningdew and Ralaea. Accomplice? Unwilling? Mastermind? (Last least likely)
• Demonstrated interest in Dinnsfield: Surveillance, background research.
• Employs Ilanya Ravendusk, last attached to the false “Lady Ravendusk,” assassinated around the time of Morningdew’s murders. Ilanya Ravendusk an employee of his before her employment with “Lady Ravendusk.”
• Employs “Jothran,” a death knight formerly known to Kaela Mondragon and Ralaea Westwind
• Playing host to Almeiria Fey, shadow priestess
• Assassination attempt (Twilight’s Hammer?) recently made at his home; Miss Fey may have been the intended target? Lied to Guard about identity/identification of assassin.

LATHRIK DINNSFIELD
Stormwind Guard, Stormwind-born before the fall. Surname changed. One brother. Father presumed dead in fall of Stormwind, but possibly recently located (by Amerith). Mother presumed living, member of Twilight’s Hammer. Living with Miss Kensington-Whit.

PERIL FARRENS
Stormwind tabloid editor, Stormwind-born before the fall. Brother of Dinnsfield. Confidentially in the pay of Amerith, who funds his paper.

RENIYA HARTRIM
Stormwind Guard, friend and colleague of Dinnsfield. Kul Tiras born, potentially a tidesage from a minor line. Estranged from family. Identified by Ilanya Ravendusk as the “Salt Man.”

NATALYAH KENSINGTON-WHIT
Former Elwynn Kensington-Whit, current worgen, estranged from family. Living with Dinnsfield. Has participated in countersurveillance and other investigation of Amerith’s motives.

OPEN QUESTIONS:

1. What were the nature and extent of Amerith’s involvement in the Mondragon business?
2. What are the nature and extent of his continuing interest in Morningdew and Ralaea?
3. What is the precise nature of his interest in Dinnsfield?
   • • How did his interest in Fray and Solari Farrens arise, and was it the cause or an effect of his interest in Dinnsfield?
     • What is the nature of his interest in Fray and Solari Farrens?
     • What happened to Fray Farrens in the First War, and is it relevant to any of this current business?
     • Where is Fray Farrens currently?
     • Is Solari Farrens in fact alive, and where?
     • What is the nature of Dinnsfield’s affliction, and can it be undone?
4. What is the nature of the Twilight’s Hammer’s involvement in any of this?
   • • What is the extent of their current interest in Dinnsfield and Miss Kensington-Whit, subsequent to their encounter with the assassin?
5. What is the nature of Miss Fey’s involvement with Amerith?
   • • What was the nature of Miss Fey’s involvement with Mondragon?
     • Why does it appear the Twilight’s Hammer is targeting her?
     • Why is Amerith withholding information from the Stormwind Guard about a Twilight’s Hammer assassin, beyond the fact that he’s a lunatic?
6. Who the hell was Lady Ravendusk and who was she working for?
   • • Amerith himself? Ilanya Ravendusk with Amerith first.
     • Or deceived by Amerith?
7. What is Alysson Mondragon’s relation to Kaela Mondragon, and how is he involved?
   • • Nephew
8. What is the nature of Miss Ravendusk’s interest in Reniya Hartrim? Beyond, potentially, what he believes it to be?
   • • Is that interest personal to her or does it extend to Amerith?
     • Is Hartrim in fact a tidesage?
     • If so, do Miss Ravendusk and/or Amerith know that? How and why would it be of interest, if indeed it is?
     • What do they know about it?
     • Is Hartrim’s family in fact in danger?
9. What am I doing here?