I was hoping when we figured out which deity this hourglass might be connected to, it would explain more about their motivations, either way. I finally got Luthir to open up about Violet's nightmares, and they're fairly certain it's the Nightmare Lord, himself, stalking her dreams. Entreating her to come to him, with the promise of power, or whatever else it is she wants.

There's one thing I know for certain: if the Nightmare Lord is behind some of this, or connected to it somehow, there's no way House drow are working with him. So I've kind of had to labor under the assumption that while Teken'Duis certainly isn't our ally, we might share a common goal through a mutual enemy. [ she sighs, because she wants to work with evil drow even less than everyone else ] Jaka Teken'Duis has made it quite impossible for us to avoid him, regardless, even claiming the involvement of other rival Houses in the case, one of which happened to attack some of our members while they were out "investigating" with him tonight.

[ and then she takes a deep breath, because she's suddenly feeling very long-winded and slightly overwhelmed... ]