A newly constructed halfling-sized coffin made from ancient silver plates and inscribed for the celestial Olbalad.
The object Thaisha carried as a silver box is revealed to be a halfling-sized coffin assembled from ancient silver plates. Its Kessian and Celestial inscriptions identify it as the Coffin of Olbalad, a celestial who once guided halfling souls to their final rest. The coffin’s interior behaves impossibly, and its intended occupant or purpose remains uncertain.
A halfling-sized wooden coffin faced with warped ancient silver plates. Its inscriptions combine archaic Kessian, Celestial glyphs and references to Obsidia, the older name for the Tenebral Reaches.
Recently constructed from ancient silver plates associated with Olbalad and halfling funerary passage.
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.
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.
The Coffin of Olbalad remains at the Archanade while Bolaire and Murray investigate its construction, inscriptions and impossible interior.
Constructed recently from ancient silver plates
Sized as a coffin for a halfling
Inscribed in archaic Kessian and Celestial
References Obsidia and the realms of final rest
Identifies itself as the Coffin of Olbalad
Its mist-filled interior appears deeper or stranger than its physical dimensions allow
Closing the lid contains the freezing mist and allows the surrounding room to warm
Was retrieved from Venatus at Thjazi’s request
Thaisha tells Bolaire that she has a box for them, then searches for Occtis because she is unsure whether she already gave it to him.
Thaisha remembers the silver box among her travelling effects and takes Halandil upstairs to retrieve it.
The box flies open when Thimble’s name is spoken downstairs and its concealed contents begin assembling themselves.
When Thaisha touches the black ceramic fragments, the velvet lining becomes freezing mist, the fragments disappear and Thaisha falls unconscious.
Bolaire reads the archaic inscriptions and realises that the supposed box is a halfling-sized coffin made from older materials.
Research and Identify magic reveal that the ancient plates name Olbalad, a celestial guide of halfling souls, although the coffin itself is newly assembled.
Thaisha carried the box among her effects after retrieving it at Thjazi’s request.
Bolaire and Murray remove the coffin from the Fang home and place it under study in the Lloy Wing.
Thaisha carried the box among her effects after retrieving it at Thjazi’s request.
Activated atThe Fang HomeThe box opens during the Farramh at the Fang home.
Current or last known locationThe Lloy WingThe Coffin of Olbalad remains at the Archanade while Bolaire and Murray investigate its construction, inscriptions and impossible interior.
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.
Campaign 4, Episode 1The Farramh of Thjazi FangThjazi’s Farramh concludes with the rebellion song Broken Wing, Thimble’s arrival, the false-glyph investigation and a final overnight vigil.
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.
A tool disappears farther into the mist than the coffin’s dimensions permit.
Vaelus witnessed the death of Sylandri, described as the final god of Aramán, seventy years before Episode 1.
Fossilised wood in the coffin comes from deep within the Wastes and the place where Sylandri died.
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
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.
When Thaisha touches the black ceramic fragments, the velvet lining becomes freezing mist, the fragments disappear and Thaisha falls unconscious.
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.
Bolaire reads the archaic inscriptions and realises that the supposed box is a halfling-sized coffin made from older materials.
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.
Olbalad is a halfling celestial psychopomp called the Sister of Mists, said to guide the dead through the mists toward their final afterlife.
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 rearranged inscriptions identify the object as the Coffin of Olbalad and explain her psychopomp role.
Thaisha notices the silver box she travelled with and asks Halandil to accompany her upstairs so she can retrieve it.
When Thimble’s name is spoken downstairs, the silver box upstairs flies open and the black clay and velvet hidden within begin moving together.
The shaking black clay and velvet rapidly assemble into the shape of a mask resembling the living clay mask worn by Bolaire.
Thaisha says that retrieving the silver box was the final thing she believes Thjazi asked her to do.
The masked Bolaire Lathalia arrives at Thjazi’s Farramh after observing his execution from the nobles’ gallery. Bolaire reunites with Thaisha and Tyranny as Halandil’s daughter Hero arrives with her mother, Elodie.
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.
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.
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.
Azune searches Thjazi’s coat and finds the object that fooled his inspection. Occtis proves that its conjuration aura was itself an illusion, revealing a deliberate substitution inside the rescue plan.
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.
As the household wakes, Halandil and Thaisha speak on the Rookery roof about the failed rescue, the danger brought home by Thjazi’s unfinished work and the need to care for their family before solving everything else.
