Eyes of Avalir

The Eyes of Avalir is an agency of detectives and investigators working for the Magisterium of Avalir. The organization works out of the Hall of Eyes, and they serve as a point of contact for the constabularies of other cities, investigate the deaths of mages who failed to ascend to godhood in mimicry of the Raven Queen, and are tasked with protecting the Tree of Names.

Their investigators, called Sightwardens, are trained in skills ranging from identifying visual cues of Invisibility to sensing magical auras. At the time of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, the Senior Sightwarden was Cerrit Agrupnin.

Its emblem is an eye with a slitted pupil.

Responsibilities and training
The Eyes of Avalir works for Avalir's Magisterium, which is concerned with magical law. The Eyes of Avalir is tasked with forever protecting the Tree of Names, an artifact that is "incredibly, profoundly important to the significance and safety of Avalir". The organization additionally works with constabularies of other cities, such as that of Vasselheim; they are contacted in matters of missing persons and to search for anyone stowing away within the city. They regularly open cases on mages who were killed failing to ascend to godhood in the style of the Raven Queen.

The Sightwardens, investigators within the Eyes of Avalir, have "rigorous" training in various skills, such as visual cues for someone hidden by Invisibility, and in the history of the city, such as the existence of the Tree of Names; though, information about the Tree of Names is considered an old piece of training. They are also trained to develop the ability to feel magical auras and presences, ranging from an aura around an individual to the overlapping of leylines and the starting of the spell engines as Avalir travels. The Sightwardens also can access at their discretion records documenting the image and arcane mark of every senior archmage that Avalir encounters in Exandria.

Hall of Eyes
The Hall of Eyes, the headquarters of the Eyes of Avalir, is located in the Cloudstone district of the city. The building is very large and made of marble, and it is described as lacking a hum of magic within its walls and is instead filled with a "cold and silent somberness".

At the center of the building is a 40 foot by 40 foot room carved from a single piece of marble that serves as a psychometric chamber that builds replicas of spaces using the memory of objects placed inside it. One wall contains a window of magical force that allows operators of the room to see into it while it is at rest and to communicate with anyone standing inside. The room has controls that allows someone using the room to move the chamber forward and backward in time and to access the Librarium Incantatum's record of magical objects.

Cerrit Agrupnin's office at the Hall of Eyes is called the Hawk's Nest.

History
The Eyes of Avalir is considered a "very old" organization by the time of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity.

Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Some days before the events of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, the Eyes of Avalir were called upon by Vasselheim authorities to investigate the disappearance of Vespin Chloras, who was believed to have possibly stowed away to Avalir. Additional rumors were that Vespin was trying to recreate the Raven Queen's ritual and ascend to godhood himself. While they intended to dismiss the case when Vespin was not found, believing it to be a standard failed ascension, a member of the Ring of Silver asked them to keep the physical evidence for reasons of academic importance instead of sending the items to be destroyed as usual. This prompted Orwyn, the investigator on the case, to bring Senior Sightwarden Cerrit Agrupnin into the investigation. Cerrit's initial findings led him to realize that it was an unusual case, and he asked Orwyn to keep the investigation private between themselves.

Loras claimed that Eldamir the Wise, a member of the Septarion ruling council to whom Loras was apprenticed, was interested in Cerrit's investigation. he asked Cerrit's friend Patia Por'co to report anything she learned from Cerrit to him, instead of alerting the Magisterium.

Membership
There are apparently few, if any, mages in the Eyes of Avalir as their members do not carry the tools of mages and are instead armed with weapons. Members of the Eyes of Avalir wear rings bearing the organization's emblem. Apparently, investigators within the organization are called Sightwardens.

Known members

 * Cerrit Agrupnin, Senior Sightwarden, eisfuura
 * Orwyn, half-orc investigator
 * Costello, present when Cerrit and Orwyn used the psychometric chamber

Trivia

 * It is unclear how Cerrit's title of Guardian of the Seventh relates to the Eyes of Avalir, if at all.