Neli La Meor: The Dark

[*The Lady With the Pet Dog]

The ghosts of the past return to haunt us at the strangest of hours.

It is here where La MeorÂ’s past deeds catch up to her. Sigil, you must realize that I have no personal vendetta against this woman; IÂ’ve only met her once. However, the Hive and our fair city at large have a right to know who their apparent benefactor is. I beseech Corwyn Lux, the cutter known as Phantom, and any others who believe Neli is a friend, to pay particular attention. You may be surprised.

With each article, my integrity as a reporter is at stake – and for that reason I must remind you Sigil, that I would not publish this if I did not have solid sources that I believed with all my heart to be accurate. I was open of my mistrust about La Meor during our one and only meeting, and she told me that I have the accounts and I should make up my own mind. I have taken La Meor’s advice to heart, and will now apply it to the entire City.

[*The Lady With the Pet Dog]

Three years ago, Neli La Meor had a lover known at the time as Gwynnithe. The two were protégés of a man known as Jach Sensbane – the same Sensbane whose name La Meor proudly puts adjacent to hers in the corporation insignia. Neli and Gwynnithe had gotten close to the point that they decided to ask Jach for a very, very large sum of jink such that they could purchase a house and live together. Jach, seeing them both as his adopted daughters, did not hesitate and gave the jink to Neli.

ButÂ… Neli did not purchase a house like she said she would. Instead, she vanished.

After an extensive search by Jach and Gwynnithe, they managed to locate her. Heartbroken, they offered her another chance to change her mind after she admitted to planning this.. “heist” of sorts. They loved her too much to see her leave in a paroxysm of bad judgement. So Neli returned back into the Sensbane fold, though she had strained the trust others in the family once held for her.

A forgiving person might have overlooked this type of behavior as an aberration from the norm. Perhaps Neli was young, brash, and immature. Perhaps the emotional stress of moving in with her loved one galvanized her to act in an irrational manner. I would have believed this too, and I would not be publishing this article were it not for the next account I received – firsthand from another close friend La Meor betrayed soon after the above incident.

[*The Lady With the Pet Dog]

Following the death of Jach Sensbane, he divided up his massive inheritance amongst his children and loved ones. Most of what he bequeathed was jink – large amounts of it. Neli, however, was slated to receive something much better: Sensbane’s company. Many of Sensbane’s loved ones protested Neli’s share of the inheritance, but one who supported her was a man we shall refer to as.. “ Do…n…ald “ (I am sure this pseudonym will protect his privacy). Amongst the rising discontent with Neli’s share, Donald assured that he would be behind her, and stand for her in court if the issue ever went to litigation.

In real fear of losing her inheritance in court she did something that I would only expect the most heartless of Takers to do: she betrayed the one ally she had in the inheritance battle. Luring the unsuspecting Donald to a room at the ground floor of the Foul-Olde-Spirit Inn, she murdered him in cold blood with the hopes of taking his inheritance – a large amount of jink that one presumes he carried with him or kept nearby. She then cut ties with other members of the family, but took the deed to his business and vanished as she had done before.

The family went to great lengths to consult the services of a powerful healer who would resurrect Donald with anchient, powerful Necromantic magic. The family then had the chance to pursue La Meor- to make her pay for her murderous betrayal, but Donald told them to justÂ… let it be. He had no desire to get mired up in an extended legal battle (or any other kind of battle) with La Meor. He wished only to be rid of her. Besides, certain things like peace of mind and trust amongst family and friends were more important to Donald than jink.

[*The Lady With the Pet Dog]

There is a disturbing pattern of behavior whenever there is a stake to be claimed, or jink to be had. La Meor has repeatedly betrayed her closest allies, people who believed she loved them. Does it come as a surprise that this apparent philanthropic effort which she has helped organize is met with suchÂ… violent resistance? Jeremo the NattererÂ’s initiatives in the Hive have never provoked this kind of response. Neither have those of the Ring Giver Vaswinya.

These darks have always been known to those in back rooms or secret alleyways or amongst information brokers, and those who in the Hive who have organized protests against ENOW. The playing field is level now, as the common man knows. Now, Corwyn Lux and Phantom also know. She may not have to answer to Donald, but she does have to answer to the rest of Sigil.


Did La Meor really expect to get away with murder?

[*The Lady With the Pet Dog]

People around the city are dying while La Meor sips fine drinks and lounges in extravagant silken chairs within the confines of her palatial estate, maintaining her silence on her wretched past. The people demand an explanation.


I may die tomorrow, but the truth never will. At worst, it will remain hidden for a time.

-Oerianna Vaas