Findings so far?

The client is a noblewoman named Olarie Dribbage. She's lived in Tamalir all her life, but for the past few weeks, she's been living in her uncle's place just outside Nornholt. Seems her uncle is missing. His name is Vizeron Dribbage. Been gone from the property for nearly a year. She says someone broke in a couple nights ago, so she ought to take ownership of the place to keep it safe. But to do that, she has to prove her uncle's truly gone--whether that means he's no longer sound of mind or body... or something worse. Your job, then, is to find out what happened to the uncle. Where is Vizeron Dribbage? Is he still alive?

Olarie Dribbage, noblewoman from Tamalir, moves to her uncle's place outside Nornholt a couple of weeks ago.
Vizeron Dribbage, the uncle, has been missing for a year
Why is she only looking for him now and why did she move?
Were there any troubles at the property before Olarie's arrival... If someone broke in a couple of night ago, that must have been shortly after she moved in. Could she have been targeted? Someone trying to scare her out of the property?

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The brothers of Saint Durvin are feeling... extorted by Vizeron's writ of understanding and looking forward to signing with a new owner.
The old man wasn't happy about getting booted from the Order and was clearly making the brothers pay back for that.
Why did he get kicked out?

The original deal with Captain Bentolin Dribbage was signed during the Third Darkness, before the land was cursed and became unproductive. Order of Saint Durvin struck a deal with the Captain to bury the dead on his land, since they had nowhere to bury all the bodies from the war. They seemed particularly careful in making sure those buried received the proper Rites and Burials to avoid another Plague of the Undead. It would seems these rites are still being done properly nowadays, so there shouldn't be any undeads going about the graveyard! (heroic ability!)

At that time the deal was probably fair, but getting paid for the produce the land is no longer giving, makes Dribbage's graveyard a gold mine nowadays.
Is Olarie after the money for something?

Last time Olarie saw Uncle Vizzy was maybe eight or nine years ago. She visited the house every summer for years when she was a little girl. Uncle Vizzy's her father's older brother. They stopped when Uncle Vizzy joined the clerics in town. He lived with some priests in town for a while. After he left whatever religious order he had joined and moved back into the house, they visited once more. Papa and Uncle Vizzy had a big fight, and we never came back after that. That was before her father passed. Olarie wasn't close to Vizeron.

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The neighbor Gallen Thistlerock sent word to her mother in Tamalir. Not many folks live out here in the countryside, so everyone knows everyone's business. Gallen said he hadn't seen Uncle Vizzy out and about in some weeks, so he thought we should know. Mama stayed behind to run the shipping company business (Are the boxes she has from THAT company?). She came up here to check on things and found the place abandoned. She came to Argus Inquiries for help when she started to wonder if something awful had happened to Uncle Vizzy. She hopes he's all right, but my family also needs to look after our family property.

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Olarie is on her own and still waiting for the servants to arrive. The break-in took place in my Vizeron's study, which is where he kept most of his stuff. Olarie hasn't touch any of his stuff, and she is not sure what they took and has been keeping the door closed and locked while working on the rest of the house, so it's possible they just used the window in there to get to the rest of the house but couldn't get any farther. She didn't seem too keen to talk about the break-in, but she also didn't seem to be lying about anything; any oddness in her behavior is due to other reasons.Assuming that's because of the neighbour?

She seems uncomfortable about the Thistlerocks and does not want then to know she hired us. Apparently Gallen Thistlerock proposed to her a few days back. He was always a bully to her when they were children! is HE interested in the property, the money, or something that is inside the mansion?
From which follows...w as he associated with the break-in?
She likes tea, pure Lorimarian tea leaf.
There was a discolored rectangular patch of wall over the mantle in the living room, which seems to have been were Vizeron's portrait was

The burglar left clear mud footprints on the floor, suggesting the burglar's feet were coated in mud when they entered the room. The path seems quite deliberate: The prints enter through the window, head directly for the bookshelf, and then head right back out. Where are the mud sources around here?. This was the shelf Hildar took a magical book from. The books are organised by subject matter and there was a gap: to the left of the gap, the books mostly seem to concern history, but with an emphasis on the First Darkness that befell the baronies. The titles of the books to the right of the gap seem to be more varied, but with several repeating words or names: "Ru," "Uthuk," "Y'llan," and "Q'aro Fenn." Assume the thief took (or was trying to find) books about the second/third darkness?

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The footprints don't look like they were made by a boot, a sandal, or a bare humanoid foot. Instead... they look like they were made by a goat, a boar or maybe a deer of some kind?
Nekurr says a quick prayer to Lady Fortuna, asking her for an extra dose of luck as he considers the footprints. Fortune has it that a book falls open to a page bearing a shocking illustration. The title of the book is The Revelations of Saint Durvin. and the open page shows a creature with goat hooves walking on their hindlimbs:
* As far as the fair races of Terrinoth are concerned, the Fauns have the roughly Human-like torsos with goat-like hindquarters. They are exceedingly rare guardians of the Aymhelin Forest and are allied with the Elves there. However, it is unfathomable that one would be about breaking into houses in the Baronies.
* It seems more likely that the creature who made the prints is some sort of dark entity, or at least one created using dark magics such as hybrid creatures created during the Third Darkness. At the time, the forces of the Dragons attacking the fair races performed dark magical experiments to create Human-Dragon hybrids to fight for them. In retaliation, a few wizards of Greyhaven experimented with dark magics to create hybrid creatures of their own. It's not unthinkable that some of those hybrids may have fused Humans with goats or similar creatures.
* However, some tavern tales speak of even darker creatures: the demons of the Ynfernael plane. He worries that the perpetrator may both be traces of something even more unspeakable than a Human–animal hybrid. Perhaps the visitor was a full-fledged demon. Seeing as how the Saint Durvin fought in the Third Darkness, the title could lend support to either the hybrid theory or the demon theory.

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In addition, they shattered an ornate egg sculpture, now plummeting toward the floor. The artwork is actually, at its base, an actual animal's egg with layers of paint and gemstones affixed to it. The egg's size suggests it came from a large animal; worryingly large enough to be a dragon egg-making it a priceless artifact that Olarie Dribbage likely won't take kindly to losing. However, it seems like the egg has little bearing on the burglary or Vizeron Dribbage's current whereabouts. Something is misinterpreted here... Dragons and the Darkness are related, so does this really have no bearing in the investigation? She confirmed it is a famously expensive bejeweled dragon eggs"

Location Small Lantern Shop wooden
Fence older dirty vender, Gorzo the Bold, Informant

Robbery at the estate is not related to lower city. (pertinent to the case)
They've made amends not to rob any place with a haunted graveyard
Rednose a burglar by profession ten years ago opted to try and steal something from the cemetery, moving rotting corpses scared him to death didn't see the next sunrise

Revealed possible rapid pickup and trade of illicit goods by a noble via horse drawn carriage escaped by fleeing through outer east gate (unrelated to case)

Escaped Brigand is the leader of the The Moon Cutters, a ruthless band of Highwaymen. (unrelated to the case)

Observation after Lower City Interview some time after his disappearance, a year, someone opted to break in,undead sentries were not maintained any more so possibly less likely to be seen or deterred.

A rubbing from the Shipping Company that is on all of the crates from the recent move. Need to review and verify shipment

Portrait was shown of the missing uncle (visual of mission POI)

Middle aged marble bust sketch, Devos Sabain who lives in Nornholt could possibly identify him

Service Record of Vizeron Dribbage with the order of Saint Durvin. Discharged reveal it was not over a simple dispute but he was excommunicated from the Church (reason for discharge)

Vizeron Dribbage spent a night in jail for refusing to leave Saint Durvin's Cathedral some years back.

The burglary at the house was not reported to the local constabulary. They have jurisdiction there, but burglars tend to leave the place alone for fear of the nearby cemetery being haunted. Some reports of witches' covens or hauntings there. Constables have never found anything untoward.

The neighbors (Thistlerocks) might know something about Vizeron Dribbage's daily habits.

Their farming land is bad so they survive on training dogs. Turns out some of these dogs have gone missing recently and then came back to eat Lyssie. Hildar thinks they may be possessed or something and Nekurr clearly traced them to the dribagge cemetery

link to post and the other one. Vizeron has been a bad boy.

He was so incompetent that he was put in charge of the church library, which was a mistake because he is obsessed with the second darkness or whatever brave Saint Durvin took care of. He them decided there was a gate to hell in his graveyard and did some animal sacrifices to get a spirit summoned. But, still incompetent, he couldn't do it so he turned to rune magic, which is like cheating and was very exciting until he disappeared.

Tronus finds the separation papers a riveting, if trying read. The whole thing is written in a very legalistic way, as if the priests of Saint Durvin were trying to make sure every T was crossed and I dotted in getting rid of Dribbage.

From what Tronus can make out, Dribbage joined the priests in his late twenties. His progress reports through his initiation and training show he was an eager if uninspired student. While he mastered much of the book learning surrounding Saint Durvin, he never showed much of a knack for creating a real spiritual connection to the divinity—no gift of healing, no gift of fighting, no gift of any kind. The priests relegated Dribbage to the libraries, unsure what else to do with him.

That was a mistake, the documents show. Dribbage found himself infatuated with the library's collection of forbidden tomes, kept under lock and key so the higher-ranked priests might study their traditional foes: undead, demons, dragons. But Dribbage, the papers allege, saw them as another avenue toward power. A superior caught him reading a book on the Ynfernael and attempting a spell from the book. As far as the senior priest could tell, Dribbage's ability to harness the Ynfernael forces was no stronger than his attempts to harness powers of divine healing or lightning. Nevertheless, the man was brought before an internal inquisition board and thrown out of the order. The document suggests that if Dribbage had ever shown a modicum of magical or divine talent, he might have been given a much harsher sentence. Coupled with his family's historical links to the cathedral (the cemetery), he was let go with just the promise he would never pursue forbidden knowledge again.