Nobody ever suspected that a secret lay hidden in the picture that
Zivilia had inherited from her mother. That it had been painted in the
land of Blue Mists, a strange hermit kingdom that lay on the other side
of the world, had been long forgotten. Besides, Zivilia knew nothing of
the country's blood-splattered history, or the disruption caused by the
League of Ausburg and their traders in the brief period when they were
there many years ago.
Thus learning her painting held clues as to where to find a lost relict
came as a total surprise to her. People in the know seemed to think that
it was buried somewhere in that mysterious island archipelago. There was
astonishment that her religious order should decide to commission her to
locate and then retrieve it. The task could have easily be given to
another deemed to be more suitable.
How then was she to travel there with her flying fox animal companion
Fluffy? Had one of the Divines known that she would need one day to make
the voyage there? The answer surely must be 'Yes.' Why else would she
have made friends with the crew of the small trading ship 'The Dark Sun'
years ago?
Like many things the long journey to solve the mystery and recover the
relict wasn't that straight forward. But then life never is! Is it?