Something is not right in the community of Cauldron. A township carved from the caldera of a long-dormant volcano, it has been plagued by a recent surge of disappearances. People have been taken from their homes in the dead of night, and the town guard has been unable to identify the criminals or locate the vanished citizens. Moreover, the homes have been stripped of portable valuables. No place is secure.
The recent disappearance of four children from the Lantern Street Orphanage has enraged many locals, and prompted a distraught cleric of St. Cuthbert to use a minor artifact in her posession to cast a divination spell. The spell has revealed a few important clues, which the cleric has been unable to piece together. Local or foreigner, for one reason or another, you have come to the town's aid.