If the ritual it is meant for was done recently, perhaps a sample was kept. That fact is going to raise eyebrows when the immediacy is done and the question of how did we miss this and what do we do to that woman arise.

[Politics, in the end. Nothing Alucard has ever dealt with (often to his detriment, as it so turns out. He's still wholly unaware of the power vacuum the death of his father created. That he created.)]

I wonder if any empty spots on those shelves might be of help.

[What's missing, can something be retroenginered? One might live in hope.]

May I ask how the shrine was restored to it's former glory? Religion is hardly a factor in the Free Cities, so I am wholly ignorant.