The Drybone incident

Merchant Prince Goro Al'Doro

Golden Sands Trading Company Merchants.

The Drybone incident refers to a failed heist that occured at the cemetary adjacent Camp Drybone in Eastern Thanalan.

A year before Emhyr Solsteel joined the Wayfarers Circle, he participated in a raid on a group who were believed to be in possession of Garlean technology that Doctor Feather Ashleaf wanted to procure for her experiments with Garlean Hypertuning. Feather Ashleaf personally headed the mission entering the area of operations with several other members of a local marchant company, the Golden Sands Trading Caravan. Almost every member of the company were non-combatants bar Emhyr.

The Drybone incident has been referred to as the catalyst for Arthurioux Loufert's revenge plot against Emhyr Solsteel and the Wayfarers Circle.

### Meeting at the Sands Headquarters.

Feather Ashleaf had summoned some key Golden Sands Merchants to a meeting at their headquarters in the Goblet, Ul'dah. Emhyr, at that time was head of security and wished to attend the briefing where the mission parameters were laid out.

Doctor Ashleaf explained that there was an artifact of great importance kept in an old church graveyard above Camp Drybone, preliminary scouting suggested that it was Garlean in origin and well guarded. Emhyr had taken to believing that bandits had taken possession of the relic, and as such signed up to the mission to both help Feather whilst also taking care of bandits in the area.

### Night of the Drybone Incident

As darkness fell over desert in East Thanalan, a lone merchant caravan rolled through Drybone, the winds had begun to pick up and a storm blanketed the surrounding area. Goro Al'Doro came up with a plan to scout out the area once more and come to a peaceful resolution with the guards of the relic.

Merchant Prince Al'Doro headed up to the gates of the cemetery with a few other merchants and opened up friendly dialogue, asking who the guards were, where they came from and the source of their relic. It's believed that Goro Al'Doro was ready to purchase the Garlean object from the guards before tragedy struck.

Emhyr had taken upon himself to further the scouting mission, silently infiltrating in behind the group, although he was eventually spotted by Marcel Loufert, who was overlooking some rocks near where Emhyr had snuck in.

To prevent the guards from learning his position, Emhyr shot and killed Marcel Loufert. The event in itself alerted the guards to Emhyr's position and they became hostile, Emhyr still believing the guards were bandits, brandished his bow and fired off more consecutive shots, letting out a cry for the Alliance.

### Aftermath

The forces guarding the Garlean relic were far more numerous and powerful than initially thought and Emhyr's onslaught was halted, forcing the team to retreat.

Ultimately the Golden Sands failed their mission to recover the artifact and it set back Feather Ashleaf's research at the cost of several lives. Emhyr filled in the paperwork that there was a group of bandits that were dispatched that day, which was signed off by the Immortal Flames and swept under the rug.

Emhyr had firmly believed in the bandit story himself until the recent revelation by Doctor Arthurioux Loufert revealing that Emhyr had killed his son, who was an innocent bystander at the given time.