An article in the Sharn Inquisitive, dated Olarune 8, 998 YK.
SHARN—The lead investigator for the Shastroon Boromar murder investigation said on Far that robbery was unlikely the sole motivation for the killers, who remain at large.
"Magically aided reconstruction of the scene of the crime seems to indicate that the fire was started some time after the murder was committed." said Blackened Book Lieutenant Laruna Thinarr. "More to the point, we believe that the tower wasn't ransacked before it was set ablaze. Evidence seems to indicate that the arson was an attempt to cover up the murder itself."
Shastroon Boromar, the younger brother of Lower Dura councilor Ilyra Boromar was found in the charred wreckage of a Cornerstone tower two weeks ago. In response to a request from the Council, an investigation was opened up last Zol on suspicion of arson and murder. Since then, each day has brought to light increasingly horrifying, and perplexing, details in the case. It was disclosed last week by the watch that Shastroon had been beheaded, and the head was missing from the crime scene. The presence of extensive magical wards around the tower, and mysterious cages found in the basement were also unusual for the row of towers near the Capellar Bridge, near the Cornerstone arena.
Councilor Ilyra Boromar has gone on record stating that the Sharn Watch would have "any and all resources" required to bring her brother's murderer, or murderer's, to justice. "We Boromars are a quiet, peaceable clan, and Shastroon was the gentlest of us all", she said. "It is my fervent hope that the pain of our grief will be assuaged by swift justice brought upon the scum that took him from us. They can't be allowed to get away with this. They won't be."
Shastroon Boromar was an arcanist by trade, known for his frequent travels between Sharn and the Talenta Plains, the Boromar clan's ancestral home. By all accounts, he was well liked, and not a man known to have enemies.