This slender knowledge is most of what I was able to ascertain from the records in our library, however I did speak about the topic briefly with Blessed Pelwar recently, asking obliquely whether any records of the Diabolist’s life survived. The Blessed has some significant scholarship in addition to her formidable organisational abilities and although this sadly proved to be a dead end, it did lead to her talking about the Quesitors, who have clearly been a thorn in her side, acting outside the law in their pursuit of anyone they believe to have any relationship to the Diabolist’s power. This may relate to the trouble that master Cleft was tangled up in as apparently they captured somebody in Aru-sha who - as far as I could gather - died in their custody. I got the impression that the Blessed felt the entire situation to be a mess and was very angry to have been involved with it. Our conversation did indicate that the Quesitors’ avenues of study are primarily genealogical- although they have some magical tools that will indicate the proximity of somebody they are hunting, they do not appear to have any way of tracking them down over a distance. I don’t know whether this information is of any use to you, but it is at least another fragment of the picture.
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