A gray stone city at the eastern edge of Kahad, built along the River Vrosh beneath the Mountains of Kavros.
Dol-Makjar is a gray stone city standing at the eastern edge of Kahad. Its towering spires follow the River Vrosh step-by-step down from the mountains. The city presents itself as a monument to heroism, camaraderie and the mortal struggle to create a brighter future.
Gray stone buildings and towering spires descend alongside the River Vrosh from the nearby mountains.
The city is associated with revolutionary heroism and hope, although the opening of Campaign 4 presents that legacy against the grim sight of a public execution.
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.
The people of Dol-Makjar gather beneath the Guardian Wall to witness the execution of Thjazi Fang.
The days have recently been mostly gray
Events explicitly established as taking place here.
Seven masked attackers struck Thimble’s hidden apartment, left her critically injured, removed their dead and stole the Stone of Nightsong.
When Thimble’s name was spoken downstairs, Thaisha’s silver box flew open and shattered black clay began assembling into a mask resembling Bolaire’s.
Julien secretly spat upon Thjazi’s body, crossing the Old Path protection around the Farramh and drawing an unknown shadow after him.
Thjazi Fang was publicly condemned and hanged beneath the Guardian Wall under the authority of the Chamber of Lords-Advisory.
A 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.
Thjazi’s family and community gathered at the Fang home for an orcish Farramh beginning on the day of his death.
Events remembered, represented or referenced here without implying they physically occurred at this site.
The doors to Faerie closed and the realm vanished from the mortal world, severing Thimble’s connection and weakening faerie-linked houses.
An ancient revolutionary conflict remembered through the Guardian Wall and the destruction of Sylandri’s immortal nightingale guardian.
Moments before his execution, Thjazi looks above the Guardian Wall and changes from confidence to visible panic.
Thjazi looks towards the sky. Whatever he sees causes his confident expression to change into panic, but Halandil cannot identify the cause from within the crowd.
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.
The Photarch rejects an expected commutation and insists that Thjazi must die, without revealing the necessity behind the execution.
Wicander tells Halandil that his family gave him full assurance that Thjazi would be spared. He cannot explain why the Photarch instead insisted that the execution proceed.
Cyd was responsible for positioning the rescue wagon but never appeared, and neither Teor nor Azune knows where he is.
The survivors establish that Cyd’s precise role was to move Casimir’s wagon into position so that Thjazi could teleport inside it. Cyd’s disappearance therefore removed a critical stage of the extraction plan.
Returning veterans find a revolutionary city transformed by Sundered House power, the Candescent Creed and an expanding Chamber authority.
Aranessa warns that the two Sundered Houses are gaining power while faerie-linked influence diminishes.
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
Dol-Makjar, the Guardian Wall and the monumental statues honouring the heroes of the Shapers’ War are introduced.
The heroic monument is revealed as the location chosen for the execution of Halandil’s brother, Thjazi Fang.
Azune Nayar is an Arcane Marshal of the Revolutionary Guard in Dol-Makjar.
Several parts of the gathered crowd cheer when Thjazi appears beneath the gallows.
The elderly matriarch of House Halovar, identified as a Scion and Photarch of the Candescent Creed, calls for light, peace and the restoration of Dol-Makjar’s heroic legacy.
The Rookery is a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Dol-Makjar.
Thaisha wears the blood-red and soot-dark colours associated with the Lloy family.
Thaisha expected the successful rescue plan to have placed her and the others on the road out of Dol-Makjar by this point.
While scanning the Rookery, Teor sees magpies, owls, doves and a falcon rising steadily upon a thermal high above the city.
Teor and Loza recently returned to Dol-Makjar after completing work in the fallen Obridimian Empire.
Thjazi’s execution causes Teor to question what has happened to Dol-Makjar and the revolutionary institutions he previously knew.
Teor names the Pariah Blades alongside the Revolutionary Council and Dol-Makjar’s revolutionary history while questioning how the city has changed.
House Halovar is now presenting itself under the name of the Candescent Creed.
Loza describes Thjazi as a commoner who grew up in Dol-Makjar on the opposite side of the river from her family.
House Halovar recently gave Halandil Fang a theatre in Dol-Makjar.
Wicander proposes that Halandil stage a play presenting the Candescent Creed favourably to a new audience.
The Photarch says that House Halovar has several plans currently unfolding within Dol-Makjar.
The Candescent Creed has struggled to spread within Dol-Makjar because the city remains the seat of the revolution.
After privately confirming that Thjazi must die, the Photarch takes the execution stage and uses magic to project her voice across Dol-Makjar.
Teor says that he no longer recognises the banners, people or religious authorities of Dol-Makjar.
Azune says that House Halovar has been shifting its beliefs over the preceding several years.
Teor and Loza remained outside Dol-Makjar before returning for Thjazi’s execution.
Teor returned to Dol-Makjar hoping to find his younger brother Cyd.
A deed upon Halandil’s desk shows that the Revolutionary Council granted him the Dithyramb of Azgra for use by his theatre company. Halandil is responsible for safeguarding the venue against arcane disturbances.
Wicander explains that commuting Thjazi’s sentence would have improved the Halovar family’s reputation and helped its outreach across Dol-Makjar because Thjazi was widely admired.
Azune and Occtis agree that they must locate Thimble. Neither of them saw her during Thjazi’s execution.
Azune and Occtis know the secret flophouse where Thimble had been constructing the escape glyph. It lies two neighbourhoods south of the Rookery in the working-class district known as the Tanners.
Azune, Occtis, and Teor meet outside the Fang home. Occtis confirms that he knows the house where Thimble was working, and the three depart through Dol-Makjar as rain begins to fall.
Azune, Occtis, and Teor enter the Tanners as rain begins to fall. The district is filled with the smell of curing leather and macerating flesh from its many tanneries.
Thimble was supposed to fly through Dol-Makjar under cover of darkness and conceal the completed escape glyph inside Thjazi’s coat.
After Thjazi escaped the execution site, Thaisha and Occtis were supposed to meet him and help him leave Dol-Makjar.
Azune’s assigned role was to manipulate the magical inspection so that the escape glyph would not be reported as magic upon Thjazi.
A former member of the Torn Banner named Casimir was responsible for providing the wagon needed for Thjazi’s extraction.
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.
Kattigan had witnessed something troubling in the rural area surrounding a crofters’ village. The experience drove the normally reclusive woodsman into Dol-Makjar seeking a drink, where whispers carried news that Thjazi was in danger.
While watching Thjazi’s execution, Kattigan imagines leaping onto the stage, killing a guard, freeing Thjazi, and dying beneath a volley of arrows. Although he knows the attempt would fail, his grip tightens upon his club as he considers acting.
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.
Kattigan identifies the Crow Keepers as one of the oldest thieves’ guilds operating within Dol-Makjar.
Thimble establishes that Thjazi was taken into custody approximately two weeks before his execution.
Kattigan says that he came towards Dol-Makjar after completing a contract near Pinebrough, a small agricultural community. He describes himself as a highly sought-after bounty hunter and warrior of the people.
Bolaire attended the execution expecting someone to help the clever Thjazi escape. They wanted to witness personally who possessed the power to save him and who chose to exercise—or withhold—that power.
Thjazi’s death is identified as the first execution in Dol-Makjar’s history carried out exclusively under the authority of the Chamber of Lords-Advisory, marking an important expansion of power for the Sundered Houses.
Aranessa says that two years after their marriage, Thjazi took up the banner of rebellion while her grandfather sided with Houses Halovar and Tachonis.
Aranessa remarks that House Royce and House Halovar are now aligned and represented together upon the Chamber of Lords-Advisory, despite the divisions associated with the Shapers’ War.
Aranessa warns that Houses Halovar and Tachonis appear to become stronger with every passing day while Faerie’s connection to the mortal world weakens.
Halandil takes Aranessa’s hand and says that the whole world is getting away from them. Aranessa agrees that the world is changing.
Murray recognises many practising arcanists at the Farramh as members of the magical underworld with whom Thjazi had recently associated.
A solitary figure approaches through darkened streets as something ancient appears to move across Dol-Makjar.
Bolaire demands to know why Vaelus is damaging her chances of recovering the Stone. Vaelus responds that Bolaire allowed her into Dol-Makjar.
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.
Halandil returns to his home in the Rookery, where his daughter Shadia prepares the house for Thjazi’s Farramh. Hal comforts her before his old friend and business partner Olgud Akarat arrives to help receive the mourners.
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.
In the nobles’ box before Thjazi’s execution, Wicander expects his grandmother, the Photarch, to commute the sentence. She instead tells him that Thjazi must die before taking the stage to address 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.
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.
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.
Loza asks Wicander to help Teor find work after her retirement. Aranessa then confronts House Halovar’s claims that it tried to save Thjazi before mourning her estranged husband and warning Halandil that Faerie’s influence is fading.
Julien secretly spits upon Thjazi’s body while the mourners are distracted. As he later leaves the Fang home, Bolaire perceives that the Old Path protection surrounding Thjazi has been crossed and that a small shadow-like presence is following Julien.
