A crowded artistic neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Dol-Makjar, known for its towers, bridges, aviaries and creative community.
The Rookery is a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Dol-Makjar. Its crowded towers are connected by sky bridges and covered with aviaries, patched roofs and improvised structures. It is home to poets, performers, actors, jesters, musicians, storytellers and other members of the city’s creative community.
The Rookery rises above the River Vrosh in a dense collection of towers, bridges and rooftops.
Crowded towers
Sky bridges
Aviaries
Patchwork roofs
A large community of performers and storytellers
The neighbourhood is preparing to receive mourners attending Thjazi Fang’s Farramh.
Events explicitly established as taking place here.
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’s family and community gathered at the Fang home for an orcish Farramh beginning on the day of his death.
After Julien violates the Farramh’s Old Path protection, Bolaire sees a small shadow-like presence follow him away.
Bolaire believes that the museum’s resources may contain information about the old folkloric magic responsible for the shadow.
Statements are labelled by how the transcript establishes them, so direct depiction, testimony, belief and disputed accounts remain distinct.
The Rookery is a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Dol-Makjar.
The Rookery is home to poets, performers, actors, jesters, musicians and storytellers.
The Fang family home stands near the top of the Rookery and overlooks the River Vrosh and Halandil’s theatre.
Olgud describes Thjazi as a hero to the people of the Rookery.
Thaisha casts Enrichment upon the ground outside the Fang home.
Thaisha’s Enrichment causes plants within half a mile of the Fang home to grow slightly greener and more fruitful for one year.
A carriage from Brethren Hall brings Thjazi’s body to the Fang home.
Thjazi’s old orcish rune stones possess no confirmed magical power despite stories told by neighbourhood children.
While scanning the Rookery, Teor sees magpies, owls, doves and a falcon rising steadily upon a thermal high above the city.
Wicander and Tyranny arrive in a guarded carriage bearing the emblem of the Candescent Creed.
The jasmine surrounding the Fang home grows across the road and prevents the Candescent Creed carriage from reaching the house.
The vines surrounding the Fang home grow thorns as Wicander declares that his family is beloved.
A magpie begins attacking the Candescent Creed carriage driver outside the Fang home.
The thrown scimitar kills the magpie and pins it to the side of a neighbouring building.
Thjazi’s scimitar becomes covered in magpie blood before Wicander retrieves it from the neighbouring house.
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.
Bolaire approaches the Fang home wearing fine black leather and suede over deep crimson clothing. Long, dark-red curls frame a grey clay mask whose black eyes contain tiny reflected blue lights and whose features move like a living face.
A gleaming green-and-gold carriage of the Sundered House of Royce approaches the Fang home, drawn by four snow-white horses.
Aranessa rides towards the Farramh in tears while holding the wedding ring she has not worn for many years but has always kept close to her person.
Sir Julien Davinos is introduced as a stern human man approaching thirty. He wears a reinforced military uniform in the colours of House Davinos, a vassal house sworn to the Sundered House of Royce.
While retrieving a cloth for Aranessa, Julien reveals that his left hand is completely enclosed within an intricate, dark-silver metal gauntlet whose size appears disproportionate to his slender frame.
Julien tells Aranessa that the man executed was no longer the man she once loved. He argues that Thjazi would not have reached the gallows had he remained that person.
Aranessa remembers marrying Thjazi near the end of the War of Axe and Vine, when he was a dashing adventurer with a pixie companion and magic in his eyes.
Aranessa says that she loved Thjazi throughout every year of their long separation. She hid during his death because she could not bring herself to watch, explaining that love remains even when people turn away from one another.
Julien argues that Thjazi chose his pride over Aranessa’s love and has now paid for that decision twice over.
Julien takes Aranessa’s hand and promises to protect her, including from what he considers unnecessary emotional pain.
Aranessa gently rejects Julien’s attempt to protect her from grief, warning that people can hurt themselves while trying to avoid pain and insisting that her feelings belong to her.
Upon reaching the Fang home, Aranessa asks for a moment alone in the carriage to compose herself. Julien respects her request and enters the Farramh ahead of her.
Murray Mag’Nesson arrives late and dishevelled by the rain, bringing cranberry rolls and a bottle of Yahrgraz for Thjazi’s Farramh.
Halandil explains that he grew up in the Rookery but not in the current Fang home. Thjazi lived with their father and Thjazi’s mother near the neighbourhood’s edge.
Thaisha confronts Julien outside the Fang home. Julien says that his friend is grieving and that he needed to close his history with Thjazi in person.
Thaisha calls Julien a lying scoundrel who betrayed his father and family for a final hope of glory.
The temperature falls about fifteen degrees, the clouds vanish, silver light changes the Rookery and the magpies fall silent.
A solitary figure approaches through darkened streets as something ancient appears to move across Dol-Makjar.
Vaelus is introduced as an exceptionally tall elven woman in obsidian armour and robes, wearing a chainmail mourning veil over arcane scars and burns.
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.
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.
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.