The battle was over.
Soon afterward, they released all the prisoners from the cages. There were four in total: two nobles and two commoners.
Miss Caldwell, of course, was the person Li Wei had come to rescue. Once released from her cage, she clung to the Elf Mage and sobbed aloud. Being locked in a cage by cultists had clearly been a deeply traumatic experience for a pampered young lady.
The second prisoner was an elderly woman named Satyr Hune. She looked to be in her seventies and had a distinctly aristocratic bearing. Like the Caldwell Family, the Hune Family was one of Baldur's Gate's founding families.
The third prisoner had simply been unlucky. Her name was Kania, and she was an expert in construction in Baldur's Gate. She had been captured purely by chance-the sewer renovation project she supervised had dug into the cultists' dungeon, threatening their operations, so they had abducted her.
Following the thrifty principle that they shouldn't waste someone they had already captured, they had decided to sacrifice her as well.
An utterly unlucky soul.
The fourth prisoner was a lean man in his fifties, who had come for the same reason as the Holy Knight Reya. He claimed to be a spy working for a mage in Candlekeep named Sylvia. He told Li Wei that Sylvia had been monitoring devil activity around Baldur's Gate and Elturel for several months, and she believed that Elturel's High Observer, Tavis...
Craig, had made a pact with an archdevil. She had sent him to find evidence of the High Observer's crimes.
Even if the devil's earlier account had contained lies, the spy's corroboration made Li Wei feel that the truth probably wasn't far from what the devil had said.
After all, just like Reya, the spy had learned that