Editing Drake's Company (section)

===The Lost City===
The next day they returned to the Spire to find it deserted. After looting what valuables had been left behind and retrieving Lafiel's wagon, they found a letter from Queen [[Aerisi Kalinoth]] who noted that the Cult of the Black Earth was based out of the [[Sacred Stone Monastery]]. Unwilling to let the air cultists go free, though, they tracked them to a passage hidden in the cliffs along the canyon's edge. They descended deep underground, much to Bran's consternation, before discovering a vast dwarven city with a pyramid in the center occupying the caverns. In a plaza just inside, they found a half-elf bard named [[Windharrow]] playing music with several air cultists. Upon seeing them, the bard asked if they would like to audition for the band. Lafiel agreed, and when he approved of her flute playing he gave her a set of initiate's robes. Bran, however, feeling anxious from being so deep underground, succumbed to his hatred for the air cultists and attacked the bard. The bard teleported away and the cultists retaliated, driving the hunters back out of the city. Lafiel, having donned her new robes, remained behind.

With her disguise, she learned that the cultists were known as the [[Cult of the Howling Hatred]]. Their queen, Aerisi Kalinoth, could be found within the pyramid, known as the Temple of the Howling Hatred. She had also summoned a djinni to help rebuild the city. The bard, [[Windharrow]], was her personal minstrel, though likely serving more out of fear than loyalty. Lafiel also learned that Savra Belabrante had survived and led the surviving knights into the city, furious at the losses they had suffered in Feathergale Spire. When her reconnaissance was over, she returned to Red Oak Village to find her companions had thought her dead. With her information, they concluded that they could not strike against the temple with their current resources; Bran decided to return to Drakkengarde and attempt to gather allies to fight the cultists.