Campaign Event
The Awakening of the Coffin of Olbalad
CampaignMagical IncidentCampaign 4, Episode 1
The silver container awakens, consumes its black mask fragments into freezing mist and is identified as a newly built coffin named for the halfling celestial Olbalad.
Event overview
Overview
The object first known as Thaisha’s silver box continues awakening during Thjazi’s Farramh. When Thaisha touches a black ceramic fragment, the velvet lining and fragments collapse into freezing mist and she loses consciousness. Bolaire identifies the object as a halfling-sized coffin assembled recently from ancient Kessian and Celestial plates. At the Archanade, Bolaire and Murray translate it as the Coffin of Olbalad, built from ancient religious materials and fossilised wood from the region where Sylandri died. A tool lowered into its mist extends beyond the coffin’s physical dimensions without emerging, leaving its interior and purpose unresolved.
The Mask in the Silver Box
What did Thjazi leave behind?
Thimble’s name opens a silver box carried by Thaisha, and black clay begins forming a mask like Bolaire’s. The final mystery of Episode 1 connects several of Thjazi’s last instructions without revealing what he intended.
The Farramh at Halandil’s House
How death brings the people of Dol-Makjar together
Thjazi Fang’s Farramh turns Halandil’s family home into a meeting place for old soldiers, nobles, arcanists, rivals and loved ones. The gathering reveals an orcish mourning custom while drawing together the unfinished stories of Episode 1.
Documented findings
Key Details
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Thaisha had travelled with the silver box and nearly forgotten it during the Farramh.
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She believed retrieving the box was the final task Thjazi asked her to perform.
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Thaisha and Halandil retrieved it in Halandil’s study.
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The box opened at the exact moment Thimble’s name was spoken downstairs.
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Shattered ceramic, black clay and black velvet moved without visible contact.
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The material assembled into the shape of a mask.
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The forming mask resembled Bolaire’s living clay mask.
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The contents, purpose and connection to Thimble remain unknown.
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The black ceramic fragments shudder together before Thaisha touches one.
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Thaisha’s touch causes the fragments and velvet lining to collapse into ice-cold mist.
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Thaisha falls unconscious and mist moves through her eyes.
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The black-clay mask is gone when the other investigators reach the study.
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Closing the coffin causes the room temperature to begin recovering.
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Bolaire identifies the object as a recently built halfling-sized coffin made from ancient silver plates.
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The Kessian and Celestial writing invokes Obsidia and the realms of final rest.
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At the Lloy Wing, Murray’s Identify spell translates the name Coffin of Olbalad.
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Olbalad is described as a halfling celestial psychopomp known as the Sister of Mists.
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The coffin uses fossilised wood recovered from the region where Sylandri died and plates taken from ancient Rauwyn temples.
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A tool inserted into the mist travels farther than the coffin’s physical dimensions and does not emerge from the opposite side.
What changed
Consequences
A previously dormant object became active inside the Fang home.
The event links Thjazi’s final instructions, Thaisha, Thimble and Bolaire’s mask.
Episode 1 ends before the mask completes its formation or acts further.
Thaisha is briefly rendered unconscious and retains the sound of a nightingale in her mind.
Bolaire removes the coffin from the Fang home for controlled research.
The object is connected to death, celestials, the Shapers’ War and Thjazi’s final instructions.
Bolaire and Murray begin a wider investigation involving the Archanade and Penteveral.
Connected lore
People, Places & Powers
Participants & Subjects
1Witnesses
3Investigators, Sources & Other Links
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5Involved Items & Relics
2Other Connected Items
1Deities
2Creatures
1Unanswered questions
Connected Mysteries
What Is Inside the Coffin of Olbalad?
Who constructed the Coffin of Olbalad, what lies beyond its mist, and what became of the black-clay mask?
The silver box is identified as a newly assembled coffin for the celestial psychopomp Olbalad, but the vanished mask, impossible mist and Thjazi’s purpose remain unexplained.
Latest developmentThe Mist Extends Beyond the Coffin’s Physical Space
A tool disappears farther into the mist than the coffin’s dimensions permit.
Transcript-backed claims
9Evidence Ledger
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
7 Confirmed2 Reported
The silver container awakens, consumes its black mask fragments into freezing mist and is identified as a newly built coffin named for the halfling celestial Olbalad.
Source
Audited Episode 2 entity-pass synthesis; the timestamp anchors the cited scene range. · Thaisha Touches the Silver Coffin · The Black Fragments Awaken
Olbalad is known through reconstructed inscriptions. The named coffin does not prove that she is dead, contained within it or connected to its present mist beyond the inscription’s claim.
Source
Audited Episode 2 entity-pass synthesis; the timestamp anchors the cited scene range. · The Coffin of Olbalad · The Archanade Opens the Coffin
Olbalad is a halfling celestial psychopomp called the Sister of Mists, said to guide the dead through the mists toward their final afterlife.
Source
Audited Episode 2 entity-pass synthesis; the timestamp anchors the cited scene range. · The Coffin of Olbalad · The Archanade Opens the Coffin
Murray’s investigation identifies the recently assembled object as the Coffin of Olbalad, built from ancient Rauwyn temple plates and fossilised wood from the place where Sylandri died.
Source
Murray Mag’Nesson, Bolaire Lathalia — Murray’s investigation identifies the recently assembled object as the Coffin of Olbalad, built from ancient Rauwyn temple plates and fossilised wood from the place where Sylandri died. · The Coffin of Olbalad · The Coffin Was Newly Assembled
The rearranged inscriptions identify the object as the Coffin of Olbalad and explain her psychopomp role.
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The rearranged inscriptions identify the object as the Coffin of Olbalad and explain her psychopomp role. · The Coffin of Olbalad · The Coffin of Olbalad
Thaisha notices the silver box she travelled with and asks Halandil to accompany her upstairs so she can retrieve it.
Source
The Stone and the Silver Box · Thaisha Remembers the Silver Box
When Thimble’s name is spoken downstairs, the silver box upstairs flies open and the black clay and velvet hidden within begin moving together.
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The Stone and the Silver Box · Thimble’s Name Opens the Box
The shaking black clay and velvet rapidly assemble into the shape of a mask resembling the living clay mask worn by Bolaire.
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The Stone and the Silver Box · A Mask like Bolaire’s
Thaisha says that retrieving the silver box was the final thing she believes Thjazi asked her to do.
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Campaign 4, Episode 1
1 sceneEpisode 1
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Lore Revelation And CliffhangerEvent unfolds here
The Stone and the Silver Box
04:19:25–04:27:027 min 37 sec
Bolaire recalls the funerary purpose of the Stone of Nightsong while Thaisha retrieves a silver box connected to Thjazi. When Vaelus speaks Thimble’s name, the box opens and shattered black clay begins forming a mask resembling Bolaire’s.
4 related moments
Campaign 4, Episode 2
3 scenesBroken Wing
02
Artifact AwakeningEvent unfolds here
Thaisha Touches the Silver Coffin
20:01–25:255 min 24 sec
The black ceramic fragments inside Thaisha’s silver box shudder together. When she touches them, the lining becomes freezing mist and she collapses with mist moving through her eyes.
1 related moment
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Artifact InvestigationAftermath
The Coffin Is Examined
25:25–45:3020 min 05 sec
Bolaire, Murray and Vaelus examine the transformed silver container while Shadia cares for Thaisha. Bolaire identifies it as a coffin and removes it to the Archanade for study.
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Arcane ResearchAftermath
The Coffin of Olbalad
02:34:04–02:54:5120 min 47 sec
After working through the night, Murray and Bolaire open and identify the silver coffin. Its ancient pieces have been newly assembled around mist that leads somewhere beyond the container’s physical dimensions.