A concealed flophouse in the Tanners where Thimble prepared the escape glyph intended for Thjazi Fang.
Thimble’s hideout is a secret apartment concealed inside the Ograhmson Leather Tannery in the Tanners district. Thjazi constructed the hiding place, and Thimble later used it while preparing the magical glyph intended to assist his escape. Unknown attackers subsequently broke into the apartment, violently searched it and left Thimble critically injured inside a drainage grate.
Hidden within a working-class district approximately two neighbourhoods south of the Rookery.
Constructed as a hiding place by Thjazi Fang
Secret entrance concealed behind the tannery’s painted sign
Three magically touched bricks operate the hidden doorway
Narrow staircase concealed within the tannery walls
Apartment used by Thimble while preparing the escape glyph
Stone drainage grate accessible only to someone of Thimble’s size
Scene of a violent and unexplained attack
The apartment has been violently searched and remains covered in fresh blood. Azune, Occtis, and Teor have found Thimble critically injured inside its drainage grate.
Events explicitly established as taking place here.
Events linked to this place, though the exact geographic relationship has not yet been established.
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.
The Stone was removed from the hideout during the attack. Its purpose is now known, but its current holder and the motive for taking it are not.
The Stone was created after Sylandri’s original nightingale guardian was destroyed during the Shapers’ War.
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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.
Occtis proposes travelling to the hideout to see whether Thimble is there. Azune agrees and asks Occtis to meet him outside.
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 leads the group to a wall marked with the name Ograhmson Leather Tannery. He knows that the letter S conceals the entrance to Thimble’s hidden apartment.
Before entering the hideout, Azune warns Teor that Thimble may be in danger and that some part of the rescue plan may have gone badly wrong.
Occtis detects magical residue upon three frequently touched bricks. By arranging them in the correct order, he opens the concealed entrance to Thimble’s apartment.
Teor notices fresh blood beneath the hinge of the secret door. Someone has attempted to clean it away hastily.
The investigators find a large amount of blood descending the hidden staircase. The marks strongly suggest that one or more bodies were dragged out of the hideout.
The concealed apartment has been violently searched. Its door is shattered, papers are soaked in blood, the mattress has been cut open, and a broken mirror and overturned furnishings show that a serious struggle occurred.
Azune and Teor recognise from the signs of the struggle that whoever was fought inside the hideout could not easily have been physically thrown around by those defending it.
The investigators recognise Thjazi’s handiwork throughout the concealed apartment. He had transformed part of the tannery into the secret hiding place, although much of his work has now been damaged.
Teor detects the familiar scent of honeysuckle and notices a dim, otherworldly light fading near a drainage grate in the stone floor.
Teor clears the furniture from a narrow drainage grate and discovers Thimble lying unconscious within a space only someone of her tiny size could enter.
Thimble is a four-inch-tall pixie with short brown hair who appears older than Teor remembers. Her dark-green clothes are tattered, her normally bright spring-green wings are muted, one wing is bent, and she lies unconscious with her needle swords scattered beyond her reach.
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.
As Thimble hovers near death, she remembers Tír Cruthú, the land of Faerie beyond the mortal realm, and sees a Golden Orchard swimming through her mind.
Thimble remembers Thjazi and hears his final message asking that she be told not to be scared, while the image of a soaring falcon passes through her fading consciousness.
With two successful and two failed death saves, Thimble’s inner light begins to fade as death draws close.
Teor remembers Thimble as Thjazi’s constant partner in crime, adventure, war, and heroism. Wherever one travelled, the other was usually beside them.
Ignoring his own safety, Teor forces his claws through the narrow stone grate, skins his knuckles, and tears the obstruction from the floor to reach Thimble.
Teor channels divine radiance through his claw and into Thimble’s chest, healing her wounds and pulling her back from the edge of death.
Thimble’s fading light returns and she regains consciousness, immediately recognising Teor beside 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.
Azune, Occtis, and Teor tell Thimble that the rescue failed and Thjazi has been executed. Thimble realises that night has fallen and breaks down because she never had the chance to say goodbye.
Azune tells Thimble that he communicated with Thjazi before his death and that Thjazi wanted her to know she had done well and that he was proud of her.
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.
Thimble remembers killing at least three of the masked figures who attacked the hideout, yet none of their bodies remain when the investigators search the room.
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.
An imposing figure appears in the entrance to Thimble’s hideout. Occtis does not recognise him, but Thimble, Teor, and Azune immediately know the man as Kattigan Vale.
Kattigan is a weathered human man in his mid-forties, standing approximately six feet four inches tall and weighing around 220 pounds. His monochrome, cowled equipment appears scavenged but purposeful, well cared for, and suited to a wild man uncomfortable within the city.
Kattigan’s imposing entrance is weakened when he stumbles against the doorway, revealing that he has been drinking. Recovering quickly, he jokes that he expected a funeral rather than a reunion.
A massive juvenile wolf floats through the open window and lands beside Kattigan. Wulferic initially growls at the room before settling protectively beside his companion.
Wulferic wears armour mirroring Kattigan’s own equipment, including a tattered cowl and an empty quiver fixed along his side.
Occtis recognises Wulferic as a wolf Pin has encountered while wandering through the woods. Rather than attacking the fox-like familiar, Wulferic adopts a submissive posture and begins playing with her.
Teor recognises Kattigan as someone he has not seen for approximately ten or fifteen years. The two greet one another with familiar insults and affection.
Kattigan admits that he followed Teor, Azune, and Occtis from the Fang home to the Tanners, mocking them as noisy, loud, clumsy, and easy to track even while he was half drunk.
After the execution, Kattigan follows Teor and the others to the Fang home. He considers entering the Farramh but turns away when the gathering grows louder and more celebratory. When the investigators emerge, he follows them instead.
Kattigan casts Clue, causing the footprints, fingerprints, and other traces throughout the hideout to appear in different colours. With Wulferic’s senses informing his investigation, Kattigan arranges the evidence into a reconstruction of the attack.
Kattigan determines that approximately seven people entered Thimble’s hideout and that three of them died during the resulting fight.
The attackers arrived masked and prepared for violence. Kattigan concludes that they knew someone inside the hideout would resist and brought overwhelming numbers to subdue them.
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 determines that the intruders fought like murderers rather than disciplined soldiers. They expected to overwhelm their victim by surprise, but became disorganised when Thimble fought back successfully.
Six attackers wore old and tattered boots, while the seventh wore footwear of noticeably fine quality. The difference suggests that one member of the group held a different status or background.
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 realises that the attackers broke open the glass case containing the Stone of Nightsong and stole the relic from the hideout.
Occtis remembers reading a reference to the Stone of Nightsong in the Penteveral at school. He believes it was an elven artefact used during the Shapers’ War, although he cannot remember its function.
Thimble confirms that she and Thjazi recovered the Stone of Nightsong during their last major adventure together, approximately a few months before Thjazi’s execution.
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.
Thimble draws the stolen relic for Occtis. It is a spherical carved stone formed by a bird embracing itself within its wings, which Thjazi described as a nightingale.
After studying Thimble’s drawing, Occtis says that he knows someone who may be able to help identify or understand the Stone of Nightsong.
While introducing Kattigan to Occtis, Thimble explains that Kattigan abandoned their old companions after a battle. Teor nevertheless describes him as a fierce warrior and a good man.
After learning that Thjazi’s body is at Halandil’s home, Thimble tearfully asks the others to take her there.
Before leaving the ransacked hideout, Thimble searches for something belonging to Thjazi that she cannot abandon. With help, she finds a letter bearing the single name Bolaire.
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 Vale and his enormous wolf companion Wulferic appear at Thimble’s hideout. The old warrior reveals that he witnessed Thjazi’s execution, considered intervening, and followed Teor, Azune, and Occtis from the Farramh.
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.