After returning from the Mists, Marjory requested my presence at the Dead End Bar to help figure out Scarlet's endgame. With some help from Emissary Vorpp, we pored over the evidence. Scarlet—Ceara back then—had studied at all three asura colleges and attracted the attention of Omadd, who wanted to understand the very nature of the Eternal Alchemy. Omadd took Ceara on as an assistant and eventually experimented on her with a special mind-isolating machine. As her mind was exposed to Tyria's magical network, she encountered something that drove her mad. Sporting a new name, Scarlet went on to make friends and allies of various outcast factions across Tyria, pairing them together for their mutual benefit, but also her own. These groups began to terrorize the lands from Ascalon to Kryta all while she set up her probes, virtually unnoticed. She used intel about ley lines gathered from her studies in Rata Sum and her time in the Inquest to narrow her list of targets. Her tampering with the watchknights allowed her the chance to bolster her ranks and reverse engineer and modify future versions. Finally, Scarlet's ploy to install Captain Mai Trin on the Captain's Council in Lion's Arch was attempted to weaken the city's defenses and leadership from the inside. Mai Trin ultimately failed, but with the rest of the evidence taken into consideration—Scarlet's gathering armies, airships, and equipment; probes searching for ley lines; assassinations—we came to an alarming conclusion: Scarlet Briar's next target was Lion's Arch.