You find the villagers gathered together in the square. Most of them seem to be in a trance, slowly swaying on their feet with blank expressions on their faces.

You move in for a closer look, taking up positions behind stacks of crates, and see a row of cages. Most are empty now, but a few contain villagers huddled together.

Before them, you see the familiar silhouette of a Venerator, he reaches into one of the cages and drags out an old man. "No! Father!" a young man screams from within another cage as the Venerator moves toward a massive slab of stone bedecked with candles.

Corpses litter the ground around the slab, but to your surprise there is little blood. In one of the Venerator's hands is a large tome. You do not know what the knight is capable of. Something malefic is clearly taking place. If you bide your time, you may learn more of what is happening here, but a man is about to die and you still have the element of surprise.