House Tachonis

Halandil Fang waits beneath the Guardian Wall as soldiers of the Sundered Houses bring his brother Thjazi to the gallows.

Arcane Marshal Azune Nayar secretly contacts Thjazi Fang, confirms the apparent presence of an escape ward and signals where Thjazi must break it to flee the gallows.

Thjazi Fang is publicly condemned beneath the Guardian Wall. After sharing a final connection with Halandil and issuing several urgent instructions, he delivers a defiant final statement and is hanged.

Thaisha Lloy and Occtis arrive at the Fang home after the failed attempt to rescue Thjazi. Thaisha reunites with Halandil and their daughter Shadia, while Occtis reveals that Thjazi helped him when he was a child.

Azune brings Thjazi’s body to the Fang home, carries his former commander inside and helps place him for the beginning of the Farramh.

Teor Pridesire and Loza Blade arrive at the Fang home after witnessing Thjazi’s execution. Loza performs an Old Path farewell beside Thjazi’s body, while Teor reunites with Azune and questions what has happened to Dol-Makjar.

Wicander Halovar and Tyranny enter the Fang home carrying Thjazi’s scimitar. An old cold-iron ward reacts to Tyranny’s presence, Halandil withdraws from Wicander, and Tyranny receives an awkward introduction to mortal funeral etiquette.

Azune and Teor compare what they know about Thjazi’s execution and the changes within Dol-Makjar. Their conversation reveals that Teor’s younger brother Cyd was meant to participate in the failed rescue but has disappeared.

Halandil confronts Wicander over his failed assurance that Thjazi would be spared. Wicander admits that he relied upon his family’s promise, while Halandil reveals that Wicander was intended to serve as a failsafe in the rescue plan.

Azune and Occtis compare the failed stages of Thjazi’s rescue and realise that Thimble and Cyd are both missing. They recruit Teor and leave the Farramh to investigate Thimble’s secret hideout in the Tanners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wicander returns Thjazi’s scimitar to Halandil as Sir Julien Davinos escorts Thjazi’s grieving estranged wife, Aranessa, to the Farramh. Their journey reveals Julien’s role in Thjazi’s earlier capture and Aranessa’s enduring love for her former husband.