Campaign Event
Attack on Thimble’s Hideout
CampaignAttackShortly before or during Thjazi Fang’s execution
Seven masked attackers struck Thimble’s hidden apartment, left her critically injured, removed their dead and stole the Stone of Nightsong.
Event overview
Overview
Shortly before Thimble was due to deliver the escape glyph, approximately seven masked attackers entered her hidden apartment inside Ograhmson Leather Tannery. Thimble killed at least three and escaped into a drainage grate with the genuine glyph, but suffered critical injuries. The surviving attackers removed the bodies, ransacked the apartment and stole the Stone of Nightsong. Crow Keeper evidence was found, but their responsibility remains suspected rather than confirmed.
What We Learned from Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 1
Consequence, authority and the mysteries left behind in Dol-Makjar
Episode 1 begins with Thjazi Fang’s execution, a rescue that has already gone wrong and a wake full of old friends, enemies and secrets. Here are the main pieces of lore it leaves behind.
Documented findings
Evidence & Findings
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Approximately seven masked attackers entered the hideout expecting resistance.
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The intruders fought like murderers relying upon surprise and numbers rather than disciplined soldiers.
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Thimble killed at least three attackers.
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Thimble escaped into a narrow drainage grate while carrying the genuine escape glyph.
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The attackers could not reach her inside the grate.
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Thimble was left unconscious, with a damaged wing and close to death.
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The attackers removed the bodies of their dead companions.
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Blood beneath the concealed entrance showed that bodies had been dragged away.
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The apartment door was shattered and the interior violently searched.
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Papers, furniture, the mattress and a glass display case were torn apart.
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Six attackers wore old or damaged boots; one wore noticeably fine footwear.
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Crow feathers carrying pine resin, alcohol and tobacco scents were found among the traces.
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The evidence suggests the Crow Keepers but does not prove their responsibility.
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The Stone of Nightsong and other magical material were removed.
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The genuine escape glyph remained protected only because Thimble carried it into the grate.
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Thjazi’s letter to Bolaire remained behind.
What changed
Consequences
Thimble could not deliver the escape glyph and Thjazi’s rescue failed.
The Stone of Nightsong disappeared into unknown custody.
Azune, Occtis, Teor and Kattigan began reconstructing the attack.
The evidence raised suspicion of betrayal and a possible higher-status organiser.
Connected lore
People, Places & Powers
Participants & Subjects
1Investigators, Sources & Other Links
4Places
3Suspected Powers
1Involved Items & Relics
4Unanswered questions
Connected Mysteries
How Was Thjazi’s Rescue Sabotaged?
Who compromised the rescue, what did Azune detect on Thjazi, and is Cyd’s disappearance part of the same sabotage?
The immediate failure is known: Thimble was attacked before delivering the genuine glyph, while a different magical signature was placed on Thjazi.
Latest developmentThe Full Rescue Chain Is Reconstructed
The survivors establish that Thimble would plant the glyph, Azune would manipulate the inspection, Cyd would position Casimir’s wagon, and Thaisha and Occtis would complete the extraction. The plan failed before its first physical stage because Thimble was attacked before delivering the glyph.
Where Was Thimble?
Where did Thimble go after failing to appear at the execution?
After the rescue failed, Thimble was found critically injured inside a drainage grate beneath her ransacked hideout.
Latest developmentThimble Is Found
Teor follows the scent of honeysuckle and a fading otherworldly light to a drainage grate, where he finds Thimble unconscious and critically injured.
Who Attacked Thimble’s Hideout?
Who ordered the attack, who wore the fine boots, and how did the attackers learn the hideout and timing?
Seven masked attackers struck at the exact time Thimble was preparing the rescue glyph, removed their dead and stole magical objects.
Latest developmentThe Stone of Nightsong Was Taken
The attackers removed the Stone of Nightsong and other magical objects from the hideout. It remains unclear whether stealing the relic was their primary objective or opportunistic theft after attacking Thimble.
Who Took the Stone of Nightsong—and Why?
Who stole the Stone from Thimble’s hideout, where is it now and why was this funerary relic targeted?
The Stone was removed from the hideout during the attack. Its purpose is now known, but its current holder and the motive for taking it are not.
Latest developmentThe Stone Replaced an Immortal Nightingale
The Stone was created after Sylandri’s original nightingale guardian was destroyed during the Shapers’ War.
Transcript-backed claims
34Evidence Ledger
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
22 Confirmed11 Reported1 Suspected
Teor notices fresh blood beneath the hinge of the secret door. Someone has attempted to clean it away hastily.
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Ransacked Hideout · Fresh Blood Beneath the Door
The investigators find a large amount of blood descending the hidden staircase. The marks strongly suggest that one or more bodies were dragged out of the hideout.
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Ransacked Hideout · Bodies Were Dragged Away
The concealed apartment has been violently searched. Its door is shattered, papers are soaked in blood, the mattress has been cut open, and a broken mirror and overturned furnishings show that a serious struggle occurred.
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Ransacked Hideout · The Hideout Has Been Torn Apart
Azune and Teor recognise from the signs of the struggle that whoever was fought inside the hideout could not easily have been physically thrown around by those defending it.
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Teor clears the furniture from a narrow drainage grate and discovers Thimble lying unconscious within a space only someone of her tiny size could enter.
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Ransacked Hideout · Thimble Is Found
Thimble is a four-inch-tall pixie with short brown hair who appears older than Teor remembers. Her dark-green clothes are tattered, her normally bright spring-green wings are muted, one wing is bent, and she lies unconscious with her needle swords scattered beyond her reach.
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Ransacked Hideout · Thimble Lies Unconscious
A small ceramic rune lies concealed beside Thimble inside the drainage grate. It is small enough to have been slid through the narrow opening with her.
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Ransacked Hideout · A Ceramic Rune Beside Thimble
As Thimble hovers near death, she remembers Tír Cruthú, the land of Faerie beyond the mortal realm, and sees a Golden Orchard swimming through her mind.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · The Golden Orchard of Tír Cruthú
Thimble remembers Thjazi and hears his final message asking that she be told not to be scared, while the image of a soaring falcon passes through her fading consciousness.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Thjazi’s Final Message Echoes in the Orchard
With two successful and two failed death saves, Thimble’s inner light begins to fade as death draws close.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Thimble’s Light Begins to Leave
Ignoring his own safety, Teor forces his claws through the narrow stone grate, skins his knuckles, and tears the obstruction from the floor to reach Thimble.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Teor Tears Open the Grate
Teor channels divine radiance through his claw and into Thimble’s chest, healing her wounds and pulling her back from the edge of death.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Teor Restores Thimble’s Light
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Thimble’s fading light returns and she regains consciousness, immediately recognising Teor beside her.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Thimble Awakens
Upon seeing the ceramic glyph beside her, Thimble insists that she must still deliver it to Thjazi, unaware that the execution has already occurred.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · I Have to Get This to Thjazi
Azune, Occtis, and Teor tell Thimble that the rescue failed and Thjazi has been executed. Thimble realises that night has fallen and breaks down because she never had the chance to say goodbye.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · Thjazi Is Gone
Thimble says that people entered the hideout and attacked her before she could deliver the glyph. She is immediately disturbed by the question of how they knew about the plan.
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Thimble Between Life and Death · They Attacked Me
Azune examines the ceramic rune and confirms that it is the completed escape glyph Thimble was preparing. It carries exactly the expected conjuration and illusion magic.
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Thimble remembers masked figures forcing their way into the hideout while she was finishing the escape glyph and waiting for the moment when she could deliver it to Thjazi.
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Reconstructing the Failed Rescue · Masked Figures Interrupt the Plan
Thimble remembers killing at least three of the masked figures who attacked the hideout, yet none of their bodies remain when the investigators search the room.
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Reconstructing the Failed Rescue · Thimble Killed at Least Three Attackers
With her final effort, Thimble grabbed the completed escape glyph and fell into the drainage grate, hiding both herself and the rune from the attackers.
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Reconstructing the Failed Rescue · Thimble Saved the Glyph
Marks upon the grate show that Thimble fell beyond the attackers’ reach. Unable to find her, they ransacked the apartment, removed the bodies, and departed.
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An imposing figure appears in the entrance to Thimble’s hideout. Occtis does not recognise him, but Thimble, Teor, and Azune immediately know the man as Kattigan Vale.
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Kattigan and Wulferic · A Ghost Appears in the Doorway
Kattigan admits that he followed Teor, Azune, and Occtis from the Fang home to the Tanners, mocking them as noisy, loud, clumsy, and easy to track even while he was half drunk.
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After the execution, Kattigan follows Teor and the others to the Fang home. He considers entering the Farramh but turns away when the gathering grows louder and more celebratory. When the investigators emerge, he follows them instead.
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Kattigan and Wulferic · Kattigan Watches the Farramh from Outside
Kattigan casts Clue, causing the footprints, fingerprints, and other traces throughout the hideout to appear in different colours. With Wulferic’s senses informing his investigation, Kattigan arranges the evidence into a reconstruction of the attack.
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Kattigan determines that approximately seven people entered Thimble’s hideout and that three of them died during the resulting fight.
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The attackers arrived masked and prepared for violence. Kattigan concludes that they knew someone inside the hideout would resist and brought overwhelming numbers to subdue them.
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Among the traces left when the three dead attackers were dragged away, Kattigan finds crow feathers carrying the scents of pine resin, alcohol, and heavy tobacco smoke. The evidence immediately suggests the Crow Keepers.
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Kattigan determines that the intruders fought like murderers rather than disciplined soldiers. They expected to overwhelm their victim by surprise, but became disorganised when Thimble fought back successfully.
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Six attackers wore old and tattered boots, while the seventh wore footwear of noticeably fine quality. The difference suggests that one member of the group held a different status or background.
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Kattigan finds fingerprints and traces of sorcery around a shattered glass case. Everything of magical importance in the hideout appears to have been taken except the escape glyph Thimble carried into the grate.
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Thimble realises that the attackers broke open the glass case containing the Stone of Nightsong and stole the relic from the hideout.
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The Crow Keepers’ Attack · The Stone of Nightsong Is Missing
Thimble cannot understand how the attackers discovered the secret hideout or arrived at precisely the right time. She concludes that something or someone betrayed the rescue operation.
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The Crow Keepers’ Attack · Something Betrayed Us
Before leaving the ransacked hideout, Thimble searches for something belonging to Thjazi that she cannot abandon. With help, she finds a letter bearing the single name Bolaire.
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The Crow Keepers’ Attack · A Letter Addressed to Bolaire
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Campaign 4, Episode 1
5 scenesEpisode 1
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Investigation DiscoveryAftermath
Ransacked Hideout
02:02:15–02:10:298 min 14 sec
Azune, Occtis, and Teor discover that Thimble’s secret hideout has been violently searched. Following fresh blood and a fading otherworldly light, Teor finds Thimble unconscious inside a narrow drainage grate.
7 related moments
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Rescue And RevelationAftermath
Thimble Between Life and Death
02:25:50–02:36:3010 min 40 sec
Teor saves the critically injured Thimble from death. After awakening and learning of Thjazi’s execution, Thimble reveals that she was attacked before delivering the escape glyph, while Azune confirms that the real glyph remains inside the hideout.
10 related moments
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Investigation ReconstructionReconstruction
Reconstructing the Failed Rescue
02:36:30–02:39:212 min 51 sec
Thimble remembers the masked figures who interrupted her before she could deliver the escape glyph. The survivors reconstruct each stage of the rescue plan and discover that the bodies of at least three attackers Thimble killed have been removed.
4 related moments
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Character ArrivalAftermath
Kattigan and Wulferic
02:39:21–02:47:328 min 11 sec
Kattigan Vale and his enormous wolf companion Wulferic appear at Thimble’s hideout. The old warrior reveals that he witnessed Thjazi’s execution, considered intervening, and followed Teor, Azune, and Occtis from the Farramh.
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Investigation BreakthroughReconstruction
The Crow Keepers’ Attack
02:47:32–02:58:5511 min 23 sec
Kattigan reconstructs the attack upon Thimble’s hideout and finds evidence pointing towards the Crow Keepers. Seven masked attackers entered expecting a fight, three were killed, and the survivors removed the bodies and stole the Stone of Nightsong.