Halandil Fang’s upstairs writing and music room, crowded with books, instruments, papers and unfinished compositions.
Halandil’s study is an upstairs room within the Fang home. It serves as his private creative workspace and a place for confidential conversations. The room contains walls of books, musical instruments, papers, scrolls, several desks and unfinished songs and verses.
Located upstairs, apart from the main gathering room used for the Farramh.
Walls of books
Musical instruments on stands
Papers and scrolls
Several writing desks
Unfinished songs and verses
The study becomes the site of Halandil’s confrontation with Wicander and the activation of Thaisha’s silver box.
Events explicitly established as taking place here.
Events linked to this place, though the exact geographic relationship has not yet been established.
A box retrieved at Thjazi’s request opens when Thimble’s name is spoken and forms a black-clay mask resembling Bolaire’s living mask.
Thaisha believes that retrieving the box was the final thing Thjazi asked her to do.
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
Halandil corners Wicander in the study and demands an explanation, reminding him that they had already spoken and that Wicander promised the matter was handled.
Halandil carries Thjazi’s scimitar to his study and lays it across the deed to the Dithyramb of Azgra.
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.
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.
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.
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.