Strife:The Hunt (Dark Brotherhood)

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Overview
Into the heart of depravity...
 * Quest Giver: Lucien Lachance.
 * Location(s): Ald Sotha.
 * Prerequisite Quest:  Divine Helplessness (or Floating Rotten instead if  Divine Helplessness was skipped]].
 * Next Quest: Rug Merchant.
 * Reward: Belt of Sanguine Fleetness.
 * Optional Bonus: None.

Quest start
The party leaves after Divine Helplessness or The Hunt, and on return (no time requirement) they find ''Doufliz being tended to by Sereyne's magic, he is awake but still slurring words slightly. Lucien is writing at his desk, when he gets up passes a note to the party, and says as he grabs his steel sober and crossbow: "Everything you need to know is there; we're on the hunt." He walks out the door.''

The note handed to the party by Lucien is the map from Dandras' Diary but annotated. If the party did not go to Ald Sotha, this is just described as an annotated map. ''While the map itself is in some sort of code, with the drawings very obscure, Lucien has cracked it with the annotations, and the map shows how Dandras gets slaves and supply shipments for the Dark Brotherhood move through boat, so they either have a Vvardenfell coastal or foreign headquarters. The map also shows the trade route, with the destination smudged and obscured, but the trades originating from Suran’s trader. This map was most likely left behind for Movis.''

The party is given all this information and must make their way to Suran. If they enquire with Doufliz, he will say:

"Trying to track someone down is made harder if you kill the contacts with that person, especially when dealing with merchants and traders. You can get more information by word of mouth than any ledger can tell you about."