Edna's little face was full of curiosity as she looked at Lynn with utmost seriousness.
Lynn had no intention of keeping her in suspense. After all, once this goddess returned to her Divine Kingdom, she would be able to see everything that had happened in the past. So he answered directly, "Hill bought them from Luskan, then sold them to that potion master in Waterdeep."
"No wonder." Edna tilted her head. "In Black Eye's memories, the large pieces of the portrait were clearly all taken away by those Wraiths."
She did not ask why Hill had not kept Maglara Black-Eyes's oil painting fragments... Those who were not followers of the Goddess of Magic simply could not use this Divine Artifact to contact the Magic Weave, much less gain spellcasting talents bestowed by it.
Besides, these fragments had been broken up so thoroughly that they could offer very little help to a Mage as powerful as Hill. Hadn't Khelben also tossed the few fragments he received into a warehouse?
Still, he had no choice but to buy them back at a high price... Even if she was the former Mystra, she was not someone a Chosen like him could ignore.
As for why everyone chose him as their chance to make a fortune, did that even need asking? Was there anyone among the Magic Weave Chosen more hated than him?
Khelben did love waging economic warfare, after all!
Those Mage merchants he had forced to personally run their shops and travel to Icewind Dale to procure goods would never pass up a chance to make trouble for Khelben.
After all, no one had expected Black Eye to leave behind such a contingency for her descendants.
Of course, Ao, who had even exploited that contingency... made his lack of virtue all the