You tell Quintus that you wish to pray before continuing with the investigation, and ask that he wait here while you do so. Mingling with the huge crowd of pilgrims and supplicants, you slip out of sight and find a quiet alcove where you are able to converse with the mendicant.

"My name is Finnian," he whispers. "I represent an order of the true faithful who are prepared to help you. We know that you seek mendicants to aid with the plague in Verum and there are many in our numbers. My order is not associated with the High Church or their corrupt doctrine, and we can provide the mendicants you require. All we ask is that you help us free my master who has been unjustly sentenced to death."

You ask him what crime his master stands accused of.

"No more than healing a sick child," he continues. "The High Church decreed that all miracles have ceased. Anyone who attempts to perform such an act is said to have committed witchcraft. My master saved a child only to be betrayed by the boy's parents. Now, the boy has been executed and my master is set to be publicly tortured and burned at the stake tomorrow. If you are willing to help us, we pledge to provide all the mendicants you require. Please. He is a good man. Will you help us save him?"