After Aegwynn broke through the Council of Tirisfal's protective barrier, perhaps because her methods were superb or because she understood the barrier too well, she failed to attract the council members' attention.
Aegwynn continued breaking through the defenses. Having lived here for centuries, she was intimately familiar with the place, and she made her way all the way to the deepest part of the council's territory.
Whenever she encountered other people along the way, she could sense them from a great distance.
The moment she sensed someone passing by, she would use Fade, turning her body ethereal and crossing into another plane.
Once they had gone far enough away, she would return from that other plane to this world. The entire journey passed without incident.
She had thought the fluctuations or lingering traces of her spells might alert the others. Perhaps the people here had no natural enemies and had lived too comfortably.
Or perhaps all the experts were away. In any case, not a single person discovered her.
At last, Aegwynn arrived before a large door covered in countless magical runes. It was clearly an important place. She knew this was one of the council's treasure vaults, where the treasures they had gathered over thousands of years were stored.
Of course, there were several such vaults. The council knew better than to keep everything in one place, lest someone sweep it all away in one go. The barriers around such places were exceptionally tight, and there was no way to break them without alerting others.
"Anyway, my goal is to get their attention. They've been so useless that they still haven't noticed me.
Then I might as well make a big move and raid a treasure vault." The council intended to remove Aegwynn from her position as Guardian and