While searching the Multiverse for the Rod of Seven Parts, the group manage to uncover secrets from others. These secrets, usually something given to them in confidence that would be forgotten about the next morning, now have a major effect due to their connection to Vecna. They can feel the power that each secret holds, as much as Vecna himself would, and are able to release it to obtain the power they contain. This is a list of the secrets they've uncovered during their travels:
1. Indrina, an actress from Neverwinter, collected information from skilled genealogists and assembled proof that Lord Neverember isn’t descended from Neverwinter’s great hero, Lord Nasher Alagondar, as he claims.
2. Sarcelle, a wild-magic sorcerer, had a psychic glimpse of a dreadful future. She saw the desiccated figure of a man levitating off the ground, gathering evil energy around himself in glowing wisps. The desiccated man then screamed and the energy exploded, causing something terrible to happen.
3. Umberto Noblin, a gnome historian, knew the cultists that kidnapped him were followers of Vecna, as he’s one of Neverwinter’s preeminent experts on Vecna’s history. The historian has kept this research to himself so other scholars don’t beat him to publication; Umberto knows he’s a slow writer.
4. Gertrude, an imprisoned Cyclops, and her friend Rockzanna, were involved in a nearby mining operation and discovered that two of the operations leaders were secret Lolth cultists planning an attack on the operation. Rockzanna was too scared to tell anyone and Gertrude was captured and imprisoned before she could help.
5. Figaro, the first mate of the Lambent Zenith, admitted he knew about the dangers of the area of the Astral Sea where they crashed, but didn’t warn the captain, since the route was economical and he believed it would be easy for the crew to traverse.
6. Ikasa, a talking Blink Dog, revealed he saw Daveras’s friend, the halfling Palenna Tindertoe, escape the wreckage of their previous ship, The Verdant Branch, after pirates attacked it. Palenna floated away from the ship using the power of her mind and likely still floats somewhere in the Astral Sea.
7. Kalyth, a scavenger of the Mournlands, admitted that in the aftermath of the Day of Mourning, she lost several valuable magic items and a purse full of gold that she could’ve used to stave off the veterans’ current financial plight. She feared the other veterans would reject her - or worse - if they found out she once had the money they desperately need and lost it.
8. Sarusanda revealed that shortly after she joined the Ulmist Inquisition, her father - a man named Galias - joined the priests of Osybus. Sarusanda witnessed him commit a terrible act in the cult’s name, though she doesn’t give details, and the inquisitor admits she didn’t arrest her father. Sarusanda considered this her greatest failing. Galias was fully inducted into the priests of Osybus, and Sarusanda heard that he would be among the cultists at the Death House, but became enraged that she hadn’t found Galias so she could confront him.
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