Strife:The Hunt (Dark Brotherhood)

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Overview
The price is blood...
 * 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, promotion to Assassin rank.
 * 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.

If the party skipped Divine Helplessness, Sereyne will mention that ''"Lucien found him in Ald Sotha. Desert Sun you would not believe his state." She tears up and says "Bha is gone, I'm sorry..."''

''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 slowly 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."

Suran
Upon getting to the Suran Tradehouse, it is clear after speaking to Ashumanu Eraishah. That she knows absolutely nothing, whatever the party asks. Upon persuasion, she will reveal "Oh god, maybe I AM in too deep, look, I don't know what's going on, but I act as a proxy store to the Dren plantation... I don't even know where the stock GOES, or what it even IS!" If the party instead kills her, the ledger displays many trades, but ones to the Dren Plantation have the stock item list completely blank.

Dren Plantation
Upon arrival to the Dren Plantation, the only person who really knows anything is Orvas Dren, he is extremely forthcoming without even being convinced.