Harrow drank the elixir and whispered back "I'm a zombie. Everyday my condition gets worse and I lose more of myself to this damned disease. You're a shade, one of the lucky ones, you don't have to worry about descending into a mindless monster like I do. I forget my disguise sometimes."
Harrow straightened and sheathed his knife. He walked over to one of the corpses of a Hood and checked the man. He found a knife similar to his attached to the man's belt and pulled it out. "Looks like who ever sent these men has ties with the Iron-Weld Highlanders, I recognize some of these insignias. A military mage, or a former one at least."
Harrow stood and showed the knife to the others. "All mages of the Empire have one of these knives. Each one is engraved by the mage, and almost always has the insignia of the college that taught them. The Iron-Weld Highlanders always marked their weapons with a special insignia which is present on the knife."