The Shattered Black Lantern Tribunal

The fallen acolytes and inquisitors carried little conventional wealth, but their equipment reveals a disciplined occult order rather than common bandits. Beneath the bodies, the party finds a locked iron case wrapped in black prayer-cords. Inside are healing draughts, a revealing lantern, coded Tribunal papers, and the strange tools of the Bound Soul Scribes. The most valuable discovery is not the coin, but the dossier and archive key. Together they indicate that the ambush was intended to silence witnesses and that a larger Obsidian Tribunal archive may be hidden nearby. The lantern still burns with a smokeless violet flame, casting hard-edged shadows across the scattered black seals.