A New Team and Mentor

Dear Mother Morgant,
 
I am honored to write you this day to acknowledge the arrival of Saia Daria. She contacted me after a successful investigation of the theft I had been speaking about. I will send in a follow-on letter with details, but let me say that I am honored that you and the Kindly Mothers find me worthy of a mentor like Daria. My teacher, your lessons are already bearing fruit.
 
I am building relationships with a local inn, called the Silver Swan, where I was able to perform Coriander as well as an early version of a tale of our first adventure together as a team. I have also helped mother in the legal and advocate fields, though my cousin believes in me finding my own way. He doesn't necessarily like the way I'm doing it, but unlike my mother, a pairing is not the direction the Wandering is taking me so far. But, he has given some support in the form of Esyllt. He made me aware of her and so far we have worked well together.
 
I keep saying 'we' without defining them. I shall correct that oversight.
 
I am part of an informal group of Archive Investigators. Informal insomuch that three of us are not such. I've described myself as a gifted amateur only. A gentlelady adventurer, like in the Tales of Alexandria or the Journey of Arcadia Frost. I know, they are more recent stories, and are more fiction than history, legend, or myth. But they are modern myths. I intend to create my own with these people.
 
The first is Sir Esyllt. She was an orphaned member of a Minari tribe, taken in by a priest from the Temple of the Three, raised, and trained to become a paladin of Ilana, a Holy Knight of the Order of Ilana's Gift. Our first adventure was enough to get her knighted. My cousin, the Viceroy, heard good things about her and I see that she is full of potential. I intend to stick close to her and get to know her better. In fact, she only recenty learned I speak her tongue. I see us seeing eye-to-eye on many things, but not all. He trust is very important to me. As is her shield.
 
The next is Jak. He is the one who brought us together. He is a mid-height, charming, rogue. Elf-blooded I believe. And he is the reason we are together. He is an Collector for the local Archives and seems to be under the watchful eye of the local senior Librarian Ogarth. He takes risks certainly, but so do I once I measure them. I'm uncertain if he measures. That said he's overall been effective. And frankly cute too. I'm sure all the ladies at the, shall we say, 'house of joy' he stays at keep him busy. In truth, he may be a perfect gentleman. I have no reason to doubt that given his behavior so far. I think he simply is trying to rise out of the gutter. Through fame and success - I think he can. Though there is something dark and mysterious about him. His past is a mystery. I look forward to learning more.
 
The last is Rithari. She is a wood elf. Perhaps a ranger of some kind. She's called herself a hunter and while I'm uncertain how good she is at the bow, she does track prey effectively. She's fairly quiet but willing to put herself out there, like when we first met - volunteering to join us, and in various melees we've had with creatures from the lowly to the most wicked she's be uncommonly brave - or foolhardy. But I have been accused of that too. That all said, I see a deep intelligence behind her eyes. She knows so much we cannot know. I intend to learn her tongue to round out my languages and maybe she might teach me some. I have yet to ask. I do believe she has elven magic of some kind. But what, I cannot say.
 
That is all for now. I'll begin my communications with Saia Daria forthwith.
 
In gracious thankfulness,
 
Saia Brännkvinna "Seraphina" Swann