Verule

The one who no one mentions - Verule "is the reason Sharra exists"...

What the Company know so far:
 * The Magistrates are VERY sensitive to people finding any information about Verule and will stop, kill or imprison those caught attempting to do so.
 * Sharif and Eldorai were imprisoned and tortured (at least partially) because they were asking questions about Verule.
 * The Spire Library allegedly contains no information at all about Verule.
 * Via magi-mechanical means, Phes asked the excitable and eccentric gnome inventor - Reggie - to use his 'learning machine' to impart to him 'all knowledge about Verule'. This happened to an unknown degree by way of some sort cerebral data dump - which left Phes dazed and suffering from specific partial amnesia with occasional flashbacks of Verule and his cohorts. He has had visions of the following: (i) A mage battle between two mages (likely one is Verule the other possibly "Harry") which resulted in one imprisoning the other into a crystal and sealing it in successive layers of bone, gold, iron, and black stone - the same stone to which the Spire and Sharra city walls are made of. (ii) a prequel of these same two mages (unsuccessfully) seeking access to some important underground tomb, in which something very important was located but lost, when the ceiling collapsed, as the mages tried to gain access to the tomb. This failure was witnessed by a woman (likely called 'Tessa' - although little else is known about her or her relationship to the two mages).