The genuine ceramic escape glyph created by Thimble to transport Thjazi into a waiting wagon.
Thimble’s escape glyph is a small ceramic rune created to rescue Thjazi Fang from execution. Thimble was supposed to conceal it inside Thjazi’s coat. When broken, the glyph would transport him directly into a wagon positioned by Cyd Pridesire. The rune carries conjuration and illusion magic. Thimble was attacked before she could deliver it and preserved the genuine glyph by taking it into the drainage grate with her.
A small ceramic piece bearing a carefully constructed magical rune.
Constructed by Thimble inside her secret apartment in the Ograhmson Leather Tannery.
Azune recovered the genuine glyph and was last shown carrying it as the investigators prepared to leave the hideout.
Created by Thimble
Contains conjuration and illusion magic
Designed to be concealed inside Thjazi’s coat
Activates when broken
Would transport Thjazi into a waiting wagon
Required Cyd Pridesire to position the wagon
Confirmed by Azune to be the genuine completed glyph
Never reached Thjazi before his execution
The rune is discovered hidden beside Thimble inside the narrow drainage grate following the attack on her hideout.
Azune examines the rune and confirms that it contains the expected conjuration and illusion magic. Thimble explains that breaking it would have transported Thjazi into Cyd’s waiting wagon.
Thimble created the glyph and preserved it by carrying it into the drainage grate after the attack.
After examining the completed glyph, Azune picks it up and carries it while the group investigates the attack.
Azune confirmed that the recovered ceramic rune was the genuine completed glyph.
Required wagon driverTalcydimir PridesireCyd Pridesire was expected to position the wagon that would receive Thjazi.
Created and preserved byThimbleThimble made the glyph and carried it into the drainage grate when the attack interrupted delivery.
Intended beneficiaryThjazi FangBreaking the glyph was meant to transport Thjazi away from the gallows.
Seven masked attackers struck Thimble’s hidden apartment, left her critically injured, removed their dead and stole the Stone of Nightsong.
The day of Thjazi Fang’s executionThe Failed Rescue of Thjazi FangA coordinated magical extraction intended to remove Thjazi from the gallows collapsed after Thimble was attacked, Cyd disappeared and a false magical signature appeared upon the prisoner.
The immediate failure is known: Thimble was attacked before delivering the genuine glyph, while a different magical signature was placed on Thjazi.
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.
After the rescue failed, Thimble was found critically injured inside a drainage grate beneath her ransacked hideout.
Teor follows the scent of honeysuckle and a fading otherworldly light to a drainage grate, where he finds Thimble unconscious and critically injured.
Seven masked attackers struck at the exact time Thimble was preparing the rescue glyph, removed their dead and stole magical objects.
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.
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
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.
Upon seeing the ceramic glyph beside her, Thimble insists that she must still deliver it to Thjazi, unaware that the execution has already occurred.
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.
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.
Azune realises that he never directly saw the object hidden inside Thjazi’s jacket. His magical scan detected the expected conjuration and illusion aura, but the genuine glyph is still inside the hideout.
Because the genuine escape glyph remains with Thimble, Azune concludes that a different object carrying the same magical signatures must still be concealed upon Thjazi’s body. The investigators decide that they need to return to the Fang home.
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.
Thimble was supposed to fly through Dol-Makjar under cover of darkness and conceal the completed escape glyph inside Thjazi’s coat.
Azune’s assigned role was to manipulate the magical inspection so that the escape glyph would not be reported as magic upon Thjazi.
Cyd was supposed to drive Casimir’s wagon into position so that Thjazi could use the glyph to appear inside it.
Thjazi was supposed to break the concealed rune, magically appear inside the waiting wagon, and leave the city before meeting Thaisha and Occtis for the final extraction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.