Hill finally pieced together the affairs of Edna's family in his mind.
Because Khelben had withdrawn from the Harpers Alliance and established his own private intelligence organization, Alustriel had actually become wary of her former companion and her sister's husband... Khelben's influence in Silver Moon City was far weaker than it had once been.
Edna's father, the man in charge of Silver Moon City's largest auction house, had played the role of a shrewd, mercenary businessman very well... The mistress he had chosen was a famous master enchanter and belonged to the current city lord's faction.
Rather than love, it was better described as using a simple physical relationship to put a seal over their private collusion... Edna's father obtained information from the academy and the city lord through this woman, while also gaining a technical master who could modify the auction house's defensive arrays at any time. Meanwhile, the dean of the Enchantment Academy could obtain information from Alustriel's side, along with free high-grade materials.
Though such a relationship was immoral, it barely counted as anything in the world of Toril.
Hill did not believe their affair could have been hidden from Silver Moon City's upper ranks, but most people would quietly cover it up. The only ones who would not know what had happened were Edna and her mother.
The real reason Edna's father had been driven out of Silver Moon City was simply because of his father... At the time, the relationship between the Mage God and Mystra had indeed been at its most tense. As Mystra's Chosen, Alustriel could not possibly keep him by her side.
But she could not harm him either... Not to mention that his own father was still alive, Alustriel and Khelben's status as Chosen had both come from Black Eye... Especially