RECAP JUNE 2026

Lyra

Cei reports to the office of the Grand Inquisitor and is sworn in as Inquisitor-General. On her way out of the compound, she sees Purifier Emelius Endicott being taken away by guards-- he has been arrested for the murder of their classmate in Purifier training, Cei's chief tormentor, who disappeared during training and was presumed to have washed out. Emelius warns Cei not to intervene.

They visit Emelius in prison. He, again, warns them not to intervene, lest Cei throw away her career. With enormous difficulty, she concedes. 

 On the way out, he quietly tells Bartholomew that his mother is still alive, imprisoned in the Iron Manor on Apophis.

Cei, clearly devastated, bids them meet her at the Magpie, and departs.

The group rendezvous at the Magpie, and are greeted by none other than Sanction, who gift them with a dossier consisting of an enormous amount of evidence proving Kollin Amherst's misdeeds. Sanction also inform them that Emelius works with them, and there are plans in place to secure his freedom. Before they can question Sanction further, they vanish.

The group immediately leaves to deliver this information to Baron Tyron. Cei is honest about its provenance, but states it confirms the findings of her own investigations. Tyron states he will leave immediately with a party to summarily execute his brother. The group, minus Ren and Sevara, offer to escort him. They ride to Kollin's estate, where they are greeted by a horde of escaping Kollin look-alikes. Lyra manages to (literally) sniff out the real Kollin. Tyron dispassionately slays him.

Concerned about Ren's growing spiritual darkness, Cei drafts her first edict as Inquisitor-General: the opening of a scrivener's school, to provide education and employment for orphans and children of the poor, ostensibly in scrivening copies of the Articles of Faith. 

Lyra suggests that the group join her in a healing ritual to bid their lost loved ones farewell, and they ride out of the city to the woods, where she prepares a special mushroom tea. They drink it and scribe messages to their lost ones, then ritually burn them. In an unusually vulnerable moment, Cei discloses to Lyra the history between her and Sir Abelard, and the reason for the current tension between them. 

The group goes to sleep in the woods, only to find Lyra has disappeared. Cei speaks to Lyra's falcon, who says she flew upward in a form that was neither bird nor human. Lyra reappears, unclothed, having found her way back from where she'd awoken in the forest. With no ability to investigate the mystery any further, they break camp, and are greeted by Sir Abelard, who has come to warn them-- Endicott has been broken out of prison, and unrest is erupting in the city due to the punishment of Tyron's mother-in-law.

They make haste back to the city and Cei heads straight for the Grand Inquisitor's office. While he acknowledges that she had an alibi and was observed not present for Endicott's prison break, he advises her to leave the city for at least six months, so as to not be perceived as interfering with the manhunt for Endicott. Finally he warns her that she is in a decidedly precarious position teetering on unorthodoxy and potentially heresy, and he has placed a great deal of confidence in her. He offers her several cases to investigate as part of her duties. She agrees to investigate a case of heresy in Northwall, in part to give a plausible and credible reason to leave the city, rather than be perceived as leaving in disgrace or distrust. 

While at the Cloister of St. Vicius, Cei also attempts to investigate the case of Bartholomew's parents. She cannot discover much beyond their guilty verdict and the fact that the mother remains alive, but the father was killed during the arrest. However, she does learn their true names.

Cei takes Lyra to the healer Sister Aisha, and after speaking to Sister Aisha, decides to keep her demon-rune tattoos. As she does so, the tattoos transform into protective warding glyphs that shield her from evil. 

RECAP apr 27

The group awake to find Ren missing. He left a letter stating he doesn't wish to traffic with the wealthy and mighty and his time is better spent elsewhere. With some trepidation, they make their way to the Baron's manse to take an audience with the newly crowned Baron Tyron.

The castellan politely suggests they bathe and don proper attire, so they do. The castellan warns Sister Sevara to be vigilant and diligent, and she passes the message to Cei and Lyra. 

The party enter the audience hall, and there is a suspiciously disproportionate amount of pomp, and oddly illustrious guests in attendance, including Archbishop Astenwick (head of the Ecclesiastes in Hyoria), Tyron's brother Karel and Kollin, Grand Inquisitor Ignacio (head of the Officia Inquisitoraea), Rector-Excelsius Purifier General Sosimar Kaine, and Knight Marshal Jorinian Green.

The non-Ecclesiastes party members are offered lordships and land or gold. Cyrus accepts the gold; Lyra and Bartholomew both take land, and decide on adjoining lands around Anger's Edge-- this feels like a just decision to heal the damage caused by the Bastiens.  Bartholomew is also booked for an appearance at the Amphitheatre. 

Abelard speaks for Ren, and asks to distribute his share of gold to the poor of the city. 

Sevara is interrogated to an almost third-degree extent; the clergy state they can find almost no record of her or who she reports to. They do not pursue the matter further.

Grand Inquisitor Ignacio offers Cei the position of Inquisitor-General. This will require resigning as a Purifier-- the role which her life and identity are built around-- and taking over a more administrative role at the Officia Inquisitoraea, where she will no longer be reporting to Kaine. He also states that the late Purifier-General Lyonel Havikar considered her the finest Purifier he had ever known. Cei unhesitatingly accepts. 

As they move to depart, Lyra catches the scent of one of the robed Brotherhood of Sleep assassins-- it is one of Kollin Amherst's aides. 

RECAP 4/20 (BLAZE IT, BY ST. GABRIL'S MIGHT)

 The party make haste back to the site of the tourney. They are nearly too late; the vampiric corpse has vanished, along with the corpse of the serving girl. They race to catch up with Baron Tyron's wagon train, only to see a shadow approaching it faster than they can intercept. They are not able to save many of Tyron's guard, who are brutally slain. Sister Sevara calls Aeo's light to smite them, and Cei castigates them. A brutal battle ensues. Ren grievously wounds the vampire master with the dagger taken from Blackhall, but is himself incapacitated. Lyra puts her new bow to good use. Cei strikes the vampire with multiple arrows, and is wounded almost mortally, but goads the vampire, attempting to draw its attention. Bartholomew bravely rides into its reach to protect her. Meanwhile, Abelard engages the serving-girl turned vampire, and slays her. 

They manage to defeat the master vampire, Cei and Ren barely clinging to life. Baron Tyron emerges from the caravan, along with his terrified wife and heirs, and thanks them for saving his life yet again. Purifier Endicott and Purifier-General Kaine arrive not long after. Cei explains the events that led to their reunion, crediting Sister Sevara's divine vision and Ren's realization.  

Tyron states that he wishes to give them full honours in court, and asks them to accompany him back to Charligan. They agree, and begin the ride back to the city.

Cei berates Bartholomew for taking such a risk in her defense, insisting that her vow as a Purifier requires her to be the first line of defense against the Utterdark, including if it requires sacrificing her life. Sister Sevara, however, glimpses Cei's motivations-- she feels consumed by guilt about both Bartholomew's parents' Purification and the loss of Bartholomew's eye, and while she still believes in the importance of her office, for her, the love and loyalty of her companions is Aeo's love made manifest in the world, and she would have gladly died for them if required.

Cyrus, usually mysterious, is unusually forthcoming; he discusses the Circle's organization and vows with Cei, and Cei discovers his role among the Circle is somewhat analogous to her own among the Church. He also mentions his and Lyra's quest to locate his mentor, and Cei offers to help in this quest in exchange for all their help in her Purifier missions. 

Sir Abelard is unusually shaken after the battle. Cei and Sevara seek to comfort him. He admits to Cei that he has grown weary of the fight. She exhorts him to stay the course, reminding him of their synergy and efficacy as a pair in earlier battles, proven again against the vampires, but leaves somewhat disappointed. 

A red-armoured figure-- Lady Brightburn-- intercepts the party, despite Kaine's annoyance. She identifies Cyrus as blessed with the power of St. Gabril, and bestows upon him the power to summon a spear of pure flame. 

RECAP 4/16/26

 The party, minus Cei, transport the body of the assassin, who died at his own hand by a desiccating poison, into a tent where the other bodies from the assassination attempt are being kept. They note that the particularly inconspicuous "assassin" has been felled by the arrows that Lyra and Cei fletched together. 

Cei returns to Abelard and asks for his help in interceding with Baron Tyron to gain custody of the serving girl, knowing that he was friends with his father Tytamon. Cei hopes to do so under the pretext of interrogating her; she also wishes to spare another hapless innocent. Cei and Abelard make haste to Tyron's compound, where Tyron, the Chief Inspector Hagen Duvall, and an unfortunately familiar face-- the Purifier-General, Sosamon Kaine-- greet them. 

Cei and Abelard give the new Baron all due honours, and Cei is commended for her role in the investigation, though she demurs and credits Aeo's guidance. Cei senses a number of surprising developments-- Tyron, very subtly, seems surprised to hear of multiple assassins, and Abelard feels nothing but hatred for Kaine. Alas, it is too late for the serving girl to be remanded to Cei's custody-- it seems she too  has died at her own hand by poison. 

The Chief Inspector politely warns the Purifiers that the case is now in his department's purview, and they are no longer to pursue it. Cei offers to provide them a copy of her (always very thorough) report, as inter-departmental collaboration, and requests a copy of theirs, stating that she is motivated to ensure Tyron's safe and smooth coronation due to her wish to see the Aeo-fearing line of Tytamon assume the baronship unimpeded. Abelard seems most proud of Cei's comportment during the exchange.

They rejoin the companions. Emelius, seemingly acquainted, refers to Abelard as "Lord" Abelard; Cei introduces her companions with no small amount of pride, and refers to Ren and Bartholomew as the brothers of her heart. They decide to ride some distance away so as to be able to discuss without being overheard. They ride some ways into the woods, and make camp.

Cei takes Lyra aside and asks if she wishes to be healed of her scars from her imprisonment and torture at the hands of Calli and her associates. Lyra says she does, but only if the tattoos can be studied and their purpose divined; she says she fears the judgment of any who see them. Cei offers to scribe the tattoos and then ask Sister Aisha's help in healing them, and assures Lyra that none are qualified to pass judgment on her. She then shows her a little-known fact of Purifier practice-- Purifiers ritually perform penance upon themselves in the form of self-injury; Cei's arms are covered in self-inflicted scars, which unlike most Purifiers, she declined to have healed; she wanted the reminder of the pain she paid in exchange for the pain her station requires her to inflict. Lyra asks why Cei carries Abelard's scent. Cei, subtly, observes that her tracking abilities are most unusual-- essentially stating she will keep Lyra's witchbreed abilities secret and protect her from detection by her Purifier colleagues as best as she can. The two, both reserved and guarded by nature, share a moment of friendship.

Many heated discussions transpire very quickly. Cei tells Ren she never forgot his words about Tyron's assassination possibly being fated, but says in her heart Aeo bid her oppose the actions of the clearly evil men orchestrating it. Ren challenges her, saying she needs to dispense with the talk of some higher power and instead take ownership of her own destiny and actions. She, uncharacteristically emotionally, replies that she is nothing without Aeo and the power lent to her through His service. 

Sevara attempts to scry/read the assassination scrip in cipher taken from the assassin's body, and is hurled to the ground, badly wounded, by a powerful, malevolent force. Before it repelled her, she glimpsed several people, including the assassin, and a demonic being, unquestionably evil. She commands Bartholomew to surrender the remaining vials of poison (heart's blood, made of vampire blood) so that she may cleanse them. 

Abelard is terribly shaken by the burst of demonic power, as it reminds him of the power that turned his wife and children, forcing him to slay them. Cei comforts him and reminds him that he did what he had to do, what they would have wanted him to do, much as Cei and Abelard were forced to do at the monastery on the mission where they met. 

Cei convinces Sevara to let her scribe the contents of the scrip before it is destroyed. She does so. But then Reniel puts all the pieces together-- the assassin did not die by suicide when he drank the demonic poison-- he had feigned death then committed the last act required to turn himself into a vampire. They realize that a terrible danger still threatens Tyron. Emelius, likely hoping to protect Cei, takes her transcript of the assassination scrip and rides with all haste back to Kaine. Cei and Abelard, the veteran demon hunters, will brook no further delay, and leave. The others follow behind them. 

MEGA RECAP-- FEB-APRIL 2026

 Searching for leads on Sanction in Charligan reveals very little, save the fact that they appear to be causing great upheaval in the city's criminal underground. While attempting to investigate at the Slovenly Siren, an inn on the docks, Cei overhears two strange men– one bearing a tattoo of crossed blades, evidently the insignia of a mysterious group of assassins  called the Brotherhood of Sleep– discussing an assassination to occur at the tourney planned for Tyron’s coronation. The men elude the party’s attempts to follow them.

Cei's old friend, Purifier Emelius Endicott, returns to warn the group that they are being tailed by a criminal syndicate called the Bludgeon. 

Purifiers rarely work together. It's very scary when they do.

They manage to waylay the tail, and learn that he was to report back to the innkeep at the Slovenly Siren. They return, and Sevara and Bartholomew employ some unusual tactics to be granted entrance after being ejected the previous evening.

Onward, Aeo's soldiers!

A messenger pigeon is dispatched, presumably by the bartender. A comedy of errors ensues; they retrieve the message, but it's written in a cipher.

They decide to spend their last evening before the tourney investigating Sanction and the Brotherhood of Sleep as best they can. 

Cyrus returns to the Circle of Thorns emissary and learns of a Brotherhood assassination fifty years earlier, in which a noblewoman was bloodlessly murdered, and the swords insignia discovered under a table.

Cei, Sevara, and Emelius head to the Campus of Saint Michael. Cei first visits a famed healer among the Ordo Solatium– a strange nun whose odd speech has the ring of either madness or prophecy– in an attempt to restore Bartholomew’s eye. They then search the archives of the Cloister of Saint Vicius for references to vampiric cults, or the Brotherhood of Sleep. Cei finds one reference to the Brotherhood, purely by chance– an ancient document stating one attempted to assassinate Charl, who at the time was endorsed by the Church– but who suicided to avoid capture. 

Tensions and conflict flare within the group. Ren wonders aloud if perhaps there were some sense in Kalli’s attempts to bring about change in the world via sacrificing them; Lyra angrily shouts him down. Both Ren and Cei’s feelings for Kalli bubble to the surface. No clear resolution is had; the group return to their rooms at the Magpie and retires. 

The Argument

They awake to find a note in the womens’ quarters, evidently from Sanction, advising them to mind their own business. Enclosed is Cei's broken arrow. They investigate the room and find a strand of red hair on the roof, identical to both the red hair of Cei’s pickpocket earlier, and the red hair in the vial taken by Silas Grange from Kalli’s possession in Blackhall.

A message from Sanction

The group travel to the tourney outside town. They decide to split up and remain vigilant. Cei and Emelius mean to position themselves in the stands to gain a vantage point. Cei is utterly discombobulated when she encounters a person from her past– Sir Abelard deMarcus, a Knight of the Reclamation assigned as her escort on a brutally dangerous and disastrous Purifier mission several years prior. Abelard intends to joust in the tourney. The connection between them still smoulders, but Cei puts duty first; she tells Abelard of the potential assassination, and departs.

Well Met, Sir Abelard

Lyra competes in, and wins, the archery tourney, acquiring a powerful new bow. 

Lyra, triumphant

Cei glimpses the assassin from the inn in Charligan and alerts the group, who move to intercept him. She also (in a truly Aëo-given flash of insight) notices a servant girl poisoning a cup of wine intended for Lord Tyron and manages to intercept it… then sees, and cuts down, another would-be assassin, who upon investigation appears to have been a red herring. The group manage to seize the real assassin, but he dies by his own hand to avoid capture. 

The Road to Charligan (pt. 1)

 Daylight sank below the hills, casting long golden shafts of light through the boughs of the jackpines and birches. The camp was quiet, lit by a merrily crackling fire. Reniel and their new companion, Sister Sevara, were already asleep in their bedrolls. Cyrus, ever ravenous, was across the clearing, quietly cursing at a thicket of blackberry bramble as he attempted to procure another meal from among its thorns. Bartholomew was engaged in restringing and tuning his lute, intermittently plucking a few notes and singing softly to himself. Lyra, who had volunteered for first watch, sat on a stump, idly poking at the fire; she glanced up as a shadow fell across her.

Purifier Ceonred stood above her; she'd doffed her forbidding armour and uniform of office, and was clad in the only other garb Lyra had seen her in, drab sackcloth that looked a little odd on someone so obviously of aristocratic bearing. The Purifier half-opened her mouth to speak, froze, closed it again, and furrowed her brow in consternation; after a moment, Lyra realized, with some amusement, that she was having a moment of awkwardness.

“Good evening, Purifier,” she said, doing her best not to grin. 

“Lyra.” Ceonred spread her hands, an apologetic gesture. “May I speak with you for a moment?” Her mien was serious, but then it rarely was otherwise.

“Please.” 

Ceonred sat on the packed earth in proximity to the fire’s glow; her gaze, usually baleful, wandered to the flames. “I wanted to… I… I am aware I am not… I know I lack a kindly manner. There was little warmth in the manor house where I was born, and the Officia Inquisitoria does not teach its aspirants to make friends. Quite the opposite, in fact. I… just wanted to say, difficult as such things may be for me: your valor and your skill with the bow, both, in the fight with the Bastiens, was the equal of any of the decorated knights of the Gladium Aëo. Given that this mission was a snare laid to bring me to ruin, I… am grateful to Aëo for having sent you to accompany me through it.”

She looked profoundly embarrassed for the briefest of moments, then quickly switched to a clearly more comfortable mode: questioning. “I have many questions. If you wish to answer, of course. You need not violate either oath or propriety, if you don't wish it. 

“For one, I would suggest you consider joining the ranks of Aëo’s martial faithful, but I sense you are… not exactly in Cyrus's employ, but duty bound to him somehow; I know not how such matters go among the Circle, and I am curious, if you are able to discuss it. 

“For another, how came you by such skill with the bow? It is not often that I encounter another…” She trailed off, but there was no need to name their shared burden. 

Lyra took a moment to consider how to answer. “I am honored to have been able to be of use in ensuring Bastien's siblings deaths and your success in your mission. It angers me that the mission was a trap set out for you, but it was too simple to catch you.” Her mouth turned up with an approving grin.

“So as for your first question. I am from the forest outside Amstenherst. There’s a beautiful lake there. On a small island on the lake is a tower of the Circle of Thorns; Cyrus trained there. We had crossed paths many times before travelling together. He is a bit flashy at times, but talented. He needed someone to guide him to reconnect with his teacher, and as you have noticed, that is somewhat of a speciality of mine. I am his Custos, a guardian of sorts. So I was hired by the Circle to assist him. I took the job, though, because I can count on him as much as he can count on me. I will stay with the Circle of Thorns; they are good protection for those who possess unusual talents.” She took a slow breath before continuing. Her gaze lowered from Ceonred’s face to the fire before them. “I am grateful it was you and this group who found us in Blackhall… felt rather trapped back there.” Lyra shifted in her seat uncomfortably.

She tried to soften her face as she continued. “As for my skill comes from being able to change when needed, knowing what I sense and trusting myself above all else. To adapt is to survive. I learn from the world around me, animals I watch, and people I see, to sharpen my instincts I pay attention to it all. The bow is a tool to protect myself, one that has rarely let me down. Using it feels natural, like breathing.” 

Their gazes met for a moment, and Ceonred nodded slowly, once. There was much Lyra was leaving unsaid, but Ceonred didn’t press further. A considerable gesture of trust and respect, it was, from one whose profession it was to suffer no secrets in her midst. 

“We’re both running low on arrows,” Ceonred noted. “I’ve fine goose feathers, if you have need of them.”

“Ah, excellent.” Lyra gestured to the far end of the clearing. “There’s a goodly straight-grained ash over there. I’ll fetch some branches. I’ll plane them, if you can affix the fletchings.” She returned shortly with an armful, and they sat in companionable silence and worked, Lyra’s plane peeling pale spirals from the ash branches, Cei’s brow furrowing as she split feathers with a slim knife and bound them. Overhead, the last light of day faded, and the stars revealed themselves, one single point of light at a time. 

ARTDUMP (DEC/JAN)

 

Purifier Ceonred and Sister Sevara, enroute to the Officia Inquisitoria to deliver their report on the Bastien case

Lyra scaling the cliff into the culvert below the Bastien manor/ Lyra striking the killing blow on Aiwene Bastien

Bartholomew makes a friend (a down-on-his-luck bard) on the Charligan docks

Session 9

 The party arrive in Charligan. Ceonred asks that they part ways for the time being, partly because it would be inappropriate for them to accompany her to the Officia Inquisitoria, partly because if things go poorly for her, she wishes for them to be well clear, and she would prefer those with unusual abilities (Bartholomew and Lyra in particular) give her colleagues a wide berth. 

Upon entering the city, they learn that a mysterious person by the name of Sanction is wanted by city officials, though quickly determine that this person has gained somewhat of a reputation as a folk hero. No one seems certain of anything about Sanction, including their gender. Cei suggests Sevara accompany her to the Officia Inquisitoria, and the others go inquire around the docks about Sanction.

At the docks, Bartholomew learns from a fellow bard that Sanction is rumoured to have assassinated many high-ranking members of two of the city's major gangs. They briefly visit a Circle of Thorns magical goods dealer, and Ren acquires a new enchanted cloak. 

Sevara and Cei make their way to the church campus. On the way, Cei's purse is snatched by a thief who is so fast they evade both their notice; Cei's sense of impending doom only increases. 

On the bridge across the river to the Inquisitoria, Cei and Sevara are greeted by an old friend-- Emelius, the irreverent Purifier who was the closest Cei had to a friend during her training years. He greets her with grim tidings-- the previous Purifier General, who was responsible for Cei's unusual appointment to the role, died six weeks previously, and the infamous Kain, known as the Hound of Aeo, had taken his place. Among his actions was pulling Emelius from the field and making him essentially Kain's secretary. He warns Cei to be cautious; Cei realizes that her commission to investigate Loredana in Anger's Edge, and thus her apparent set-up, must have come directly from him. (She also realizes that had the thief not cut her purse, she never would have encountered Emelius. Aeo works in mysterious ways.) 

Cei and Sevara proceed to Kain's office. Cei adopts a posture as rigidly correct, methodical, and by-the-book protocol-following as possible; she delivers her report and the full suite of evidence. When Kain inquires as to Loredana's fault, Cei states, essentially, the truth; she determined Loredana to be innocent of any wrongdoing, and as soon as she saw the girl's unusual beauty, realized that this was yet another case of a noble attempting to weaponize the Purifiers against a failed conquest, citing ample precedent of such, and Cei's annoyance that the Purifiers' time and resources should be wasted thusly. Cei also introduces Sister Sevara as a witness to all that transpired, including the horrors under the Bastien manor; Sevara corroborates Cei's account.

Strangely, Cei receives the impression that Purifier-General Kain is somehow pleased. It seems that he cannot fault her handling of the case, and in fact commends her, though he does imply that she (owing to the defects inherent to her sex) is too soft. He does not issue her any further orders. Cei and Sevara are glad to leave. 

They reunite with their party, and discuss what to do next. Investigating Sanction seems like a compelling choice. 

A Crumpled Scrap of Parchment

 

[One of the party finds a still-smoldering crumpled scrap of parchment, clearly tossed into the fire and possibly blown out by a stray gust of wind before being fully consumed, not too far from the indentation made by Cei's bedroll in the dirt and leaf litter. Some of it, written in a painstakingly precise hand, is still legible:]

The Charlite Revelation Doctrine: Exoneration and Vindication of One Erstwhile Deemed Traitor and Blackguard, as a call to all faithful of Aëo to hold Ourselves to Higher Standards of Truth and Righteousness 

By: Brother C

[Large sections are burned and illegible]

...but in the end, Purifier-General Ysemir Hastingmoor saw the error of his ways, and repented for his betrayal of Charl with most sincere and agonizing remorse, though the only means at his disposal to make repair was in the taking of his own life. I believe that Aëo grants grace to all truly contrite souls, however misguided their actions may be, and that Hastingmoor's soul was not banished from His kingdom to writhe in the eternal darkness of the void.

 For truly, I believe Aëo calls us all to be Purifiers, and the greatest action of purification is one He calls us to perform continually, upon our own selves-- to unflinchingly scrutinize ourselves, our own motivations, and our own actions, for the impurities of selfishness, and greed, and hypocrisy, and cruelty, and hubris, and cowardice, and ignorance, and these to burn away through contemplation, contrition, and most importantly, restitution toward those we have wronged, that we may emerge purer and keener instruments of His will... 

[The precise hand trails off, and the next portion is scribbled out with some vehemence. A much sloppier hand resumes writing thereafter, briefly.]

Oh bugger this all to the Void. Even thinking this in the wrong company will get me roasted alive like a pig on a spit on St. Gabril's Feastday. I'll bide my time and place my faith in His will. May He grant me patience. 

Ceonred (D&D Fashun)

 

1) Cei takes her Aëonite vows of modesty very seriously. Consequently, none of the group members have actually seen her hair, except the ones who knew her before she joined the Church.

2) The Purifier-Generals' uniform: intended to intimidate, but surprisingly functional for covert operations. Blackened steel that doesn't catch light, the feared mitre-helm with its visor cutout in the shape of Aëo's holy symbol, and the flame-red stole with the Supplication to Aëo embroidered in Old Lenglic (worn by all clergy). As Cei is the first female Purifier-General in seven hundred years, a new suit had to be forged specifically to her measurements, causing grumbling in the order about how she was burdensome from her very first day. 

3) Standard raiment for women in Church service, and what Cei wears when off duty. The wimple usually buttons up over the wearer's nose and mouth, to remind women of their vow of silence. This has always annoyed Cei, and since taking the oath of the Purifiers, she never wears it thus. 

4) The Purifiers' instruments of questioning. Even before recent events, Cei made it clear that she took no joy in that aspect of her duties, but she still carries them.

5) Healers' kit. Cei is a competent enough mundane healer. 

6) Rope (always handy).

7) Ren and Bartholomew would recognize this as a pocket knife belonging to Cei's long-deceased twin brother, Leofric.

8) A pearl brooch. Very out of place; Cei avoids finery of any sort. Never glimpsed outside the bottom of her pack.

9) Ink and quill; Cei is constantly writing in her various scrolls and codices.

10) Cei's worn-into-near-illegibility copy of the Aëonite Scriptures, filled with margin notes, bookmarks, sections she herself appended with musings, meditations, and revelations.

11) Cei's trusty longbow. Purifiers are trained for ambush and covert operations rather than out-and-out combat. Nonetheless, in her time studying the martial disciplines, many of her cohort saw fit to mete a disproportionate amount of sparring injuries on the lone quiet girl clearly of noble birth. Cei fulfilled the bare minimum requirements on the sparring field and instead threw herself into archery training, and consequently is a very skilled markswoman.  

12) Keen, well-crafted dagger, the finest work of her House's estate's smith.

13)  Cei has taken the finial from Charl's chaplain's staff, recovered from the depths of Blackhall, and affixed it in the place of the pommel from Asher Bastien's beautiful and magically fortified longsword. She has mentally named it Verlosser (this means "Redeemer" in Old Lenglic). 

14) Dried apples. House Llanwich's land is known for its apple orchards; they are Cei's favourite snack and she's rarely without them.