Based on the intelligence currently at hand, no more than a handful of Dark Gods church members had been discovered in all of Water-Drawing City—or rather, no more than a handful had made no deliberate effort to conceal their identities.
But failing to discover them did not mean they did not exist. What could be confirmed at present was that the Port District of Water-Drawing City contained a large number of Zhentarim members.
This was an evil organization founded in the Moonsea, composed of Evil Alignment wizards, clerics, and warriors, with the goal of seizing dominion over the various realms. According to Kaierben, these people had spent recent years trying to establish a monopoly over trade in several port cities around the Moonsea, the Sea of Fallen Stars, and the Sword Coast. Of these, Water-Drawing City was the crown jewel of their strategic objectives.
And rather ironically, these factions had always competed with and infiltrated one another. By now, probably no one but themselves could tell who was one of their own anymore.
It was even said that there had once been an agent sent to infiltrate one side, who was then, years later, dispatched as an infiltrator to a third party, only to be arranged by that third party to return—a nested-doll chain of spy within spy within spy.
If that woman had not written an "Artistic and Technical Memoir" in her later years, detailing the "harrowing" tale of how she, as a quadruple agent, had played the four organizations against one another, those three factions probably would never have known they had done something so "stupid."
Wait, why four sides?
Oh, according to the end of the memoir, that old lady, who had been a thief, wealthy merchant, cleric, and technical worker all in one, had at her