The party’s open questions, ranked roughly by current priority.
Standing Assignments (from Uncle)
- The Sanctum Investigation — sanctum #1 entered (S5); the orrery turns out to be a working, recent instrument (S6). Six or seven prisons, four candidate sites, and a broken door
- Why Did the Phoenix Knights Come to Hazad — the second standing order
Urgent (S6)
- The Riot at the Ulpia Estate — new: a mob at the door, professional snipers nobody could find, scores dead, and no one knows if the city is finished
- The Death of Naqi al-Akram — new: he was pulled off Awad’s expedition by his sister’s death and then died at home. Sadiq is holding something back
The Western Thread
- On the Summoning of Guardian Spirits — Benedicto Malipiero is the Most Holy’s younger brother, condemned for heresy ~1710. The surname theory is confirmed
- The Night in the Royal Castle — who sent the assassins. Marc Abayante saw it coming and gathered the order anyway (S6)
- The Lord of Kraus’s Folly — the Averoigne swordsman, the Ritual Magic circle, and Amalricht von-Haup as its possible builder
- The Monastery of the Dawn and the Orrery — the monastery died in a siege; the dream-orrery is not its orrery, but a Clan Grum instrument built in the last twenty years
- The Halwa Ambushes — Sister Alasia reached at last, but who sent the thugs is still open
The Succession Crisis
- The Death of Crown Prince Awad — accident, assassination, or something in the ruins? His usual bodyguard was removed from the trip and then died. Nobody has the roster of who did go
- The Elf Scapegoating — who’s aiming the mob at the elves? It reached the streets in S6
- The Attacks on Baahir — hastily assembled, three people, very professional (Ismad, S6); Harim al-Faisal was used, not complicit
Party Business
- Ari and the Ring — the heretical binding and House Aurunculeia’s secret
- The Call at the Sanctum — now party knowledge (S6); Haroun told them himself. Has not recurred
Resolved
- The Curse on Titus — lifted by Father Jamar in one night (S6). Kept for the theory it probably killed, and because nobody has examined Titus since
Evidence Files
- The Fall of the Order of the Owl — the GM’s dated timeline 1731–1736, now with the two survivors’ testimony added
- The Recovered Documents — the decoded Phoenix/Owl papers, the star-leyline math, and The Red Star
- The Six Voices — Estelle’s cosmology of the sanctums, and the one place it contradicts the Church
Minor Threads
- Who is Estelle? Uncle and Maajid suspect the Order of the Phoenix — no proof. And the Phoenix reportedly used divination in the war forty years ago. (S6)
- Where did the orrery come from? A Clan Grum instrument, 10–20 years old, used and maintained. Instrument-makers keep books. Nobody has asked Estelle. (S6)
- Nobody asked Visenne de Tarrand or Isabel d’Allais about the sanctums — the reason the party wanted them. They’re still at Gazra and can be released into the party’s custody on request. (S6)
- Does Isabel d’Allais know her father is dead? She defends d’Allais in the present tense — which is also the wiki’s open question about his fate. (S6)
- Who murdered House Bethlen in 1720, and why then? Constanza Bethlen has been officially dead since infancy. (S6)
- Amalricht von-Haup and Kristof Gruben both died ~1736 — two Krenau men, in the year the Owl was purged. Get causes of death. (S6) (von-Haup as the Kraus’s Folly circle-builder was only Uncle and Ismad speculating — the builder is unknown.)
- Who is Marin’s cousin of Clan Aggadum, who was on the Fall 1732 party that killed the demon and recovered the tome — and are they alive? (S6, GM)
- Who knew Etienne’s intentions early? Madeline was appointed Marie-Celeste’s tutor in anticipation of the legitimization. (S6, GM)
- Was Madeline Marc Abayante’s paramour? Rumor, per Visenne — and Madeline has never mentioned him, or Marie-Celeste. (S6)
- Did the two Ulpia guards live? Gnaeus teleported them out mid-fight and tried to heal them. (S6)
- The political aftermath of Farraj killing scores of commoners with lightning in the capital. (S6)
- Why do Uncle and Ismad doubt Benedicto Malipiero’s execution? Officially he was executed ~1710; they don’t believe it and didn’t say why. (S6, GM)
- Does Charles de Tarrand know his daughter is a hostage in Hazad? Five years, no ransom. (S6)
- Constanza Bethlen — fugitive, ~20, dark hair, some unknown relationship to the folly’s lord — and the rightful heir to Morrschatten, carrying the Betrayer Queen’s gift. (S5, GM)
- Sister Alasia and Haroun — what she’s actually running in Halwa, and why she called Madeline an “old friend”. (GM) And Uncle’s Men have now told the Eagle about Madeline. (S6)
- Daughters of Touraine — Odette, Alphonsine, Eloise: claimants to Averoigne under the Doge’s protection. (GM)
- The Ritual of Rebirth — who else can perform it, what it costs, and why nobody has mentioned it with a Crown Prince freshly dead. (GM)
- The hidden chamber the second incursion tore open at the Sanctum of Sethariel — what came out of it? (S5)
- The scholars Madeline named, and Gandolfini’s university at Krenau — which burned in the 1731 sack. (S5, GM)
- What became of Jehanne d’Allais, the Owl’s last commander, when the order was dissolved and its members executed. (GM)
- Ask Madeline about Marie-Celeste de la Courcel — she was the murdered heir’s tutor and never mentioned it. (GM; corroborated in-world S6)
- What Bren and Arnolf’s “extended questioning” by Uncle’s Men reveals. (GM)
- What the Eagle learned from the Halwa captives in 1734 — and who decided to keep them alive on royal ground for five years. Sister Alia has been minding them the whole time. (S4, S6)
- The wisp of smoke over Kraus’s Folly seen from the ship — who else was there? (S4)
- The ~20 bandits on the university road — possibly the highland mercenaries the wine hall remembered passing a month earlier, looking for a contract. Nothing links the two. (S3)
- The unnamed “very large woman” who accompanies Princess Ensah. (S3)