Officers: Constable G. Townsend, Constable A. Welstan
Day: Thursday
Case Type: Missing Person/Theft
Victims: Mithgar, Scholar and Maester of Gondor, Lython of Gondor
During our patrol, Welstan and I were approached by an elderly gentleman, named Mithgar, in the street in the Stone Quarter district. After introductions, the man unraveled the tale of his concern for a man he named Lython he had sent form Gondor to retrieve a valuable book from someone in the Pony. Lython was sent to Bree with a bag of fifty silver to meet with a Dwarven author of this research book, though the author was said to have sent a servant of his to the exchange in the tavern. However, Lython was said to have been gone for a month, and has not returned to the scholar. A letter, however, was sent to Mithgar claiming the exchange of the book for gold had been made.
Lython was described to be a young, tall fellow with a brown beard. The Dwarven author, who Mithgar has not met with in seventeen years, was said to be a young dwarf, with long brown hair and a beard. The book is said to be a collection of research and experimentation on Human and animal anatomy. The Dwarf claimed, through this text, that he had a cure for all diseases.Mithgar is an elderly gentleman, bearing a walking staff and grey hair and a beard. Mithgar parted with the letter the Dwarf had written to him. It indeed states that the exchange was made for the book. (The letter is enclosed with this report. No incriminating evidence is within, however.)
After our shift, Welstan and I went to Pony, so I could write the report, and Welstan could investigate. Immediately, Lython was located at a table near the bar, and he has shared with us his story of the exchange.
When Lython arrived in Bree to make the exchange, he was greeted by ten men, instead of one. He assumes they are brigands, as they wore no sigil or family crest. Knowing that there was ten against one, even though he claims to be a proficient fighter, he accepted defeat then and there, giving them the gold because he wished not to risk his life. They took it, of course, and let him go.
Too embarrassed to return to Mithgar or write to him of his safety, Lython has tried and failed to regain the gold he lost, and has requested to join the Bree-town Watch.
