Tiral let his arm rest as he brought the paper down, letting the rest of the Knights debate among themselves as to what it could be referring to. The mercenary's reaction was telling to some extent; whatever had been [i]here[/i] was also one of their goals, and if it was something worth enough trouble to bring down an entire fort and the group that had the item in the first place, then it [i]probably[/i] wasn't worth the headache letting it slip by.

Sult's suggestion to start scrying was itself not a bad idea, but it wasn't as if he was in any position to try anything like that. What he was studying at the moment (after the mistake that was learning that Marianne could only really fire large lightning bolts and nothing less) was more in the realm of 'aerial clairvoyance', if anything, and even then...
"Scrying... I don't think I'd be of much use, honestly," he responded, shaking his head in apology as Gillian and Tyaethe began to exposit about the Shards of Angoron. Though the name felt somewhat familiar, Tiral himself couldn't remember from where he had heard the term before. But if it was important enough to be expounded upon like it was, then it was [i]probably[/i] important enough to worry about. Maybe spending too much time in the realm of the practical had left him without memory of the past. That... Wasn't the best of things to think, though.

"Well... The story was a pleasant reminder... If pleasant could even [i]describe[/i] the situation if your guess is correct," Tiral said somewhat ironically as he glanced towards the fort, then back at the other knights. "Assuming it is one of these shards, though, and I'm not saying it is, then I'd rather us not become a band of murderers enslaved by evil. Is there any way that we can deal with this sort of all-encompassing force of evil without being influenced by it, or are we possibly biting off more than we can chew?"

It may have been a tad demeaning of the order, but the mage felt as if he had the right to voice his concerns. Their image in regards to the public was important as well, and if someone important was to fall victim to such a thing...

Well, it wasn't as if they could cover something like that up easily, if at all. If the Roses fell from grace, then... Well, there were some things better left unsaid.