Episode 1

SHORT SUMMARY

Synopsis
One by one the members of the party start arriving in a tavern next to the Steps of Debate in Godsgrave, most of them meeting for the first time. Aurelius and Xanthus exchange a look of recognition. Agrippa immediately cements a friendship with Aurelius as he compliments his hat. While they stay put around the site, eyeing the hidden shrine, they one by one start approaching the beautiful high priestess of Tsana, Medea. Revealing their tokens, marking their killings, to her, she instructs them to wait in the tavern. When she approaches the party again, she reveals their next steps. The party is supposed to travel to the coast of the former Ashkan empire to the city of Last Hope and find Innkeeper Daanio of the Old Imperial. They have to arrive before Saai sets in the sky. There they have to present the tithe for the maw to Daanio. On the Barbed Clam, the ship of Captain Reyes, a ship captain Nadya knows, they set out for Ashka. Their rather uneventful time on the ship is interrupted when a military vessel approves, but there is something odd about the soldiers that come on deck. Caeso, through his military connection and charming self, manages to prevent what could have been an unlucky encounter with them. As they find Daanio, the party is given little information. They are told to find the quiet mountain. As they stay in the room of the inn, they discover a map painted on the blinds of one of the windows, showing the mountain range. During a brief conversation some of them reveal what their tokens are. After Daanio becomes annoyed by the party pestering him, they take a cart with horses to leave in the direction of the quiet mountain. When Caeso fails to control the horses, Xanthus takes over with ease and they leave for the desert. During a short break the party gets ambushed by three figures. Later to be revealed to be Naev, Vylas and a third hand, who was killed by the party during their fight. Neav says a prayer: ''»Hear me, mother. This flesh, your feast. This blood, your wine. This life, this end, my gift to you. Hold them close.«'' On their way to the quiet mountain, Aurelius confesses to Agrippa that he never killed someone, revealing his sword to be fake. Agrippa gives Aurelius a club he carried around that was used to kill someone to present as a token, unsure if it will even work. Before arriving at the Red Church, the party gets blindfolded and led to the Hall of Eulogies, where we first encounter the different Shahiids and Mother Drusilla. Each teacher states their kill count and then Drusilla welcomes the acolytes. At the end, she gives a warning about lying and she flings a knife in the direction of Aurelius. Luckily, she was aiming for the person standing next to him. Janus is killed with a knife in his neck, revealing that he handed in a fake token.

Characters
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