While everyone has been busy at the tournament in Redridge or attending Shredding Accordingly's concert in Uldum then I have been busy digging deeper into the story about the crimson coins with grinning skulls and their ability to spread a plague.
As I was walking around the city late Thursday night, I was approached by a Worgen woman just as I had finished taking notes near a woman killed and hanged upside down from a wall in a tunnel overhang between Cathedral District and Dwarven. The Worgen woman - who had nothing to do with the dead and blood dripping woman - had a story to tell, and I do enjoy a good story.
The woman, clad in travelling gear and looking slightly exhausted explained that the story starts with a pamphlet she found while totally minding her own business in Darkshire.
Wolfie: "So.. Some month ago, I wus lurking around in Darkshire."
"Wolfie" is in fact, by her own admission her nickname and the only name she felt comfortable giving me. Considering the story, she had to share - then I don't blame her for wanting some anonymity.
Wolfie: "My attention wus grabbed by a pamphlet that looked like an ordinary one for recruitment purposes, but it was covered in crimson ink, with all shite over it."
At this point the woman showed me a pamphlet which talked about
"The Kindred Association" who according to the pamphlet is a family of sorts who takes in misfits and others who find it difficult to belong anywhere else. It then goes on to describe how to find them at an orchard in Duskwood and to ask for
"...anyone of the Ringleaders of Councilors, or the Matriach", and if that fails, any of their
"Brokers" who may reside in Darkshire or Stormwind, or of course the orchard mentioned in the pamphlet. Finally the pamphlet is signed
"Matriarch Zaleyne Sweetveil"
This in itself is not really interesting on its own, but next to this pamphlet
"Wolfie" also found what looked like a warning message to this very Matriarch Sweetveil, and this message was far more sinister.
"If you keep sticking your nose in our business, we'll kill your entire so-called family one by one. We have eyes and ears everywhere"
The message goes on - mentioning a
"Morlea" and that if
"...you expel her from your family and do not interfere with our actions, so be it, we will turn a blind eye to your impudence and the conflict will be resolved."
"Wolfie" and a few other people decided to look into this and they spent about a week trying to find this
"Kindred Association".
Wolfie: "They like... vanished through the ground as if they never existed. No one knew them, saw 'em, heard about 'em."
They did instead start to pick up on something else.
Wolfie: "During our search, we started to pick more and more details about those, whom this Sweetveil wronged apparently. The Night Watch knows 'em too well too. One of their folks told me that a few days prior to me discovery, they found like thirty bodies in the field, roit outside the village. That's wot yer article mentioned."
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"Wolfie" refers to the initial article on this story where sources told me about at least 30 dead Dracthyr in Duskwood.
Wolfie: "But. Those bodies were more... ash than bodies when they were found, with coins, daggers and sum gems apparently. So I had more of a gab in the followin' days with that soldier and she also told me that those thirty bodies ain't first in the list."Article continues after the ad.
With "that soldier"
"Wolfie" is referring to the Night Watch person she mentioned talking to earlier.
Wolfie: "Before that, aboot seven more victims came to be, same shite with coins. Apparently, those Red Hoods once fought the Watch. Details were vague, but she did say that they managed to kill one, who was a female elf, wearin' red hood. Hence the name, Red Hoods, they all wear it."
According to some rumours I have picked up over the last few days then these "Red Hoods" are a sort of sisterhood. And now it gets even more muddy.
Wolfie: "Then, I overheard one discussion between the soldiers in Town Hall, sum time later. Sum years ago, when one cult was settin' chaos in Duskwood, those Red Hood appear one day... or night.. and wanted to act as liasons to that cult in a gab between the Watch and that cult. But nothin' came out of it."
So it seems - if
"Wolfie" is to be belived that this Red Hood sisterhood is not new and they do seem to originate in Duskwood. As for if they have killed the Kindred Associaion? I asked her about that.
Wolfie: "I niver said that Red Hoods killed 'em. Well, they may have. Or not. I dunno. It's just strange that no one ever knew, heard or saw 'em in a first place."
It seems that whether or not the Red Hood Sisterhood is behind the disappearance of the Kindred Association then an argument could be made that it is highly mysterious they seem to vanish right after the warning was left next to their recruitment pamphlet.
"Wolfie" later arrived in Stormwind and found the same recruitment pamphlet in the Cathedral.
I asked around and it seems no one has seen this Kindred Association, but a few (including a guard and a paladin) has seen similar pamphlets in the city.
My attempts of finding anyone who heard the name Morlea or had any information on Kindred Association or Matriarch Zaleyne Sweetveil has so far been futile and I have learned nothing. Besides the existence of several pamphlets then they may never have existed.
If anyone has access to official town hall archives in Darkshire then please get in touch, as it may be the only place with any records in regard to these names. I tried myself but the town hall clerk does not much like journalists, or Kul Tirans, possibly both.
According to
"Wolfie" then she also found one of the famous crimson coins next to the warning message in Duskwood and when I initially talked to Captain Chesterfield from Golf Company (The King’s Footmen) he said that
“Apparently this coin belongs to a group whom calls themselves the "Red Night". It's some sort of an assassin order that bases itself and operates around Duskwood.” so I think we can conclude that the group known as
“Red Hoods” the same group known as
“Red Night”.
Finally, remember how I started this article with talking about a dead elven woman hanging upside down and dripping blood? According to sources then she had a crimson coin on her – not identical to the other ones – but near enough that it was replicated on purpose. So who killed her and left the calling card of the Red Hoods /Red Night?
It seems the deeper into the rabbit hole I go, the less I know.
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"Wolfie" also mentioned that the two people she travelled to Stormwind with, Sarinor and Zahra, went back to Duskwood early - and she has not heard from them since. So if they read this - try to get in touch with
"Wolfie" as she is worried.