As we walked through Neverwinter on our way to the docks, the others told me some of what the man in yellow had told them while they were on watch. Orcus the demon lord of the abyss whose hand we now have hanging around Sirk's neck needs 14 Templars which he will raise or recruit from the living and the dead in order to emerge on the material plane. The only ones they know of are Yarno an evil wizard that they have tangled with before and a champion fighter of Neverwinter entombed below Castle Never.
After securing rooms at the Beached Leviathan Inn we went to the docks to see if Syndra's vision was in any way a literal ship which it wasn't but while looking around I saw the same thief that Tael was talking to in Fandolin. He must have traveled by teleportation to get here so fast. As I passed by he was mumbling to himself “Why does he always suit me with these tasks” and looked like he was possibly looking for someone. What is Tael's connection in all of this?
We then went to Castle Never which had various tours available of the castle, the city, and the tombs. So we took the tour. The first level is the various past kings of Neverwinter. The next area was the first Kings 9 champions followed by the most notable Kings 9 champions and then the previous Kings 9 champions. Then a section for notable officials including a peasant who became honored due to some notable battle that no one remembers. Along the way I spotted a secret door and given how far we had traveled I am sure we were outside of the castle grounds to the northeast and have a suspicion of where it might emerge.
The last area had three unknown tombs but Ines recognized the relief of one of them. She then, to much surprise, summoned the ghost of Barthiel a dwarf barbarian from one of her magic items and confirmed that it was his grave and the identity of who the other two graves were. He said he was killed by a demon of the abyss that they were fighting in this area before the city of Neverwinter existed. Can you be a champion of a city before the city existed? Or is it one of the 27 other entombed champions or someone in the notable section?
The ghost and the tour guide kept talking all the way back out of the catacombs which caught the eye of a guard who “invited” us upstairs to talk to someone…
