[OPEN] Secrets in the Elven Ruins

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WHO: Loghain + OPEN to anyone participating in The Sea Shall Rise & Devour mod plot.
WHAT: While exploring the elven ruins atop the island, Loghain uncovers an overgrown passageway into a secret chamber within the ruins.
WHEN: 1 Harvestmere
WHERE: The island
NOTES: This will continue as one linear thread, no separate starters. Best to use flat view to view all tags.

The sword is as impossible a relic to glimpse as any of the other wonders the Inquisition's explorers have witnessed while proceeding through these ruins, but it is the only one that causes Loghain Mac Tir to stop mid-stride, staring at it. It should not be here--but that is precisely why he sees it. A dragonbone blade, inlaid with gleaming blue runestones; a glimpse of golden hair in his peripheral vision, and Loghain turns to look after it with his heart in his throat--but no. Just another illusion.

He turns back to the sword where it lies in the verdant grass, and kneels to pick it up, hesitating before he grasps the blade. The heft is so familiar--even fine dwarven craftsmanship such as this would not weather the passage of time so well. Rising to his feet, Loghain extends it out slowly to examine the state of the blade--and that's when he notices the peculiar shadow cast across a section of mouldering stone by a copse of trees.

He steps forward, pushing aside vines and low-hanging branches, to reveal the shadow for what it is:  an ancient, half-collapsed passageway that leads deeper into the ruin.

"I've found something over here," he calls out to the others who are with him. Remembering it, he glances down to the blade in his hand; he holds nothing but air.