[ Hm - nothing to compare there from what he knows from home, then, though even Claude knows he's merely grasping at threads which may lead nowhere in order to weave them into something that makes sense with their here and now. None of which does, and none of which what he knows of Abraxas seems to connect to where they're sitting, their odd captors, everything else.

What Elrond suggests is likely their best bet to have any hope of narrowing it down or to give any kind of useful information to those Summoned not here. ]

That'd be something worth focusing on. Even in the research I've done about the Free Cities and Abraxas as a whole I can't say I've stumbled across anything like it before. Their masks are... unnerving. I've asked a couple others this already too, but were they the last thing you saw before you woke up here? Inside that plant, or whatever it is.