Rising from the Shadows

Rising from the Shadows is the second entry in the Greywatch quest series.
The quest follows PIA operative JC Pendley, tasked with locating a missing Pemblish ambassador to Rubellium, who has been under surveillance for abuse of power and involvement in smuggling. After a visit to the embassy in Rubellium and local YHS Hotel, evidence leads the remote industrial town of Ironridge. There, locals send JC Pendley in the direction a secret entrance to Dum'Thol, an long abandoned Dwarven city. Within the vaults of the barren city, it becomes clear that the smuggling operation was to transport ancient dwarven technology that had been exfiltrated from the inner chambers of the Divinity Engine. An encounter with cultists and a deceased PIA operative further reveals that the Cult of Endric had assisted the Greywatch with their enigmatically named endeavour, "J.U.S.T.I.C.E". On his return to headquarters, JC Pendley returns to PIA to report in and is advised that the agency will be looking into the ultimate destination of the smuggled goods.
== Plot ==
=== Briefing ===
Pemblish Intelligence Agency operative JC Pendley is summoned to an operational room at Pemblish Intelligence Agency Headquarters and briefed on his mission; a Junior Ambassador at Pem's Rubellium embassy, Jack Handle, has gone missing and is to be tracked down. Handle is suspected of abuse of power and state funds to facilitate bribes and manifest tampering for multiple canal shipments on the Super Canal. He has been under surveillance for some time by agent Bungalow. Ambassador Wetherby, Pem's Ambassador to Rubellium, who first raised the allegations against Handle, is the first port of call in the investigation, having both initially reported suspicion of Handle's misdeeds, and now of his disappearance. 
==== Brief - Mission Document ====
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==== Brief - Entity Document ====
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=== Rubellium ===
JC Pendley takes the next train service to Rubellium and heads to the embassy where he meets with, Ambassador Wetherby. Wetherby advises that Jack Handle was a man who largely kept quiet and to himself, an uninspiring but sufficiently effective junior ambassador. On the advice of Wetherby, JC Pendley questions other ambassadorial staff who echo Wetherby's sentiments, but also reveal that Handle had a "sweetheart" who worked at the docks, and that he frequented the nearby YHS Hotel.
At the YHS, the proprietor entertains JC Pendley's questions, revealing that Handle has a room in the hotel and expressing distain that the tab for the room hasn't been paid in several days. In return for the purchase of a few drinks, the proprietor lends JC Pendley the key to Handle's room to assist with his investigation. Upon investigating Handle's room, a letter reveals his role in the smuggling operation is further confirmed, along with his codename "Morrigan". Furthermore, the letter states that the shipments originate in Ironridge. 
==== Proof of Smuggling ====
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=== Ironridge ===
=== Dum'Thol ===
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