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Heinrich Himmler. Hitler's most rabid henchman and head of the SS. Of all the Nazi top brass, he's the one who has fallen furthest down the rabbit hole of occult conspiracy theories. This sounds like exactly the kind of thing he would be interested in.

"The Nazis already had science teams here, with military escorts," says Zhu. "Going around the towns and villages, measuring people's heads in pursuit of evidence to support their infantile 'racial science.' But last week that all changed. Two dignitaries arrived on a German military transport plane. A notorious Gestapo operative by the name of Dietrich Paulus and a woman, Spanish, who seems to be some kind of archaeologist."

"María García Pérez," you growl, your blood running cold. Paulus and García. The same pairing as in the Holy Land, back at the Bull's Horns. That can't be a coincidence, surely. Is there a connection between these two objects? But what could possibly connect a first-century breastplate from the Holy Land and a magic stone from Tibet last seen in the fifteenth century? None of this makes sense.

"We intercepted some of their communications. We understood little, although there were several mentions of the six Relics of Power. But soon after arriving, Paulus redeployed the science teams. They left the towns and villages, and came up into the mountains. I am sure of this: they are in that pass right now, looking for Shambala. We must find it before them!"