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- What were Flinhart and Tymora discussing in Case 1? From what we heard, it was a heated conversation, but it's never revealed what the two were talking about in the end.
- Maybe Ruby wanted to introduce him to Beatrice. Beatrice shared the same goal as him, to depose King Olivier. With Flinhart's popularity with the commoners and Beatrice's inheritance money, they could achieve anything. However, she's one of the most powerful mages in the country and he detests them. Ruby probably spent a lot of time trying to convince him that working with her (and possibly the Eyetaker) was worth it, but he couldn't let go of the fact a mage had killed his sister.
- Another possibility is that she was trying to get him to work with the Eyetaker directly, or to do something underhanded as part of one of the Eyetaker's schemes; he's implied to be more idealistic, like Tyrion, and therefore would have likely objected.
- Why did Beatrice steal the Sword of Spell Eating? Marrunath didn't need it to get into the study. And I don't think "I wanted to sell it in the black market" is true, because the Fregas have all the money they could ever need and then some.
- Sure, Marrunath didn't need the Sword of Spell Eating to get into the study... but that narrows down the list of suspects to 'Anyone with a familiar,' and while Beatrice isn't known to have a familiar, the discovery of Marrunath would surely incriminate her. By stealing the Sword of Spell Eating, it opens the possibility that anyone could have broken into the study.
- Without it, the anti-magic field would have both cut off her familiar bond with him and prevented her from keeping Marrunath invisible. While in theory he could have waited in the air vents until the field went down, one thing that Tyrion's psychological profile of her notes (and which is a major plot point because it's what gets her caught) is that she hates being vulnerable, dependent on others, or under other people's control. Therefore, she wouldn't have wanted a situation where she couldn't continue to see through Marrunath's eyes and give him orders, and specifically wouldn't have trusted his judgment to carry things out on his own.
- The Anti-Magic Field was activated because the sword was stolen. If she had left the sword alone, the lockdown wouldn't have happened and there wouldn't have been any field messing with her plan.
- What did Remus Virgilae and Marrunath talk about in case 5?
- Going by Remus' statement that it was a 'personal matter,' it was probably regarding Celeste's parentage.
